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Says gold medal ace alistair brownlee

- Alex Spink

Never has Yorkshire felt more like home sweet home for double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee.

Britain’s star triathlete was 5,000 miles away at a training camp on Monday when foreign secretary Dominic Raab instructed UK travellers overseas to “come home now while you still can”.

Brownlee, in the United States with brother Jonny, was inside the Olympic bubble, chasing his dream in water and on land as he had before winning gold in London and Rio.

With Olympic chiefs insisting that no decision on the Games would be taken for another month, the pair ploughed on.

Even private concerns that Alistair had come a little too close for comfort to a coronavirus hotspot, when competing in Spain earlier this month, could not derail him.