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Meet Alex Yee: Olympic gold medalist who picked up triathlon mantle in Paris
Alex Yee has already experienced Olympic success
TEAM GB star Alex Yee won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 2024 Olympics.
But who is the 26-year-old triathlon star that made a surprise comeback at the men's triathlon in Paris?
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The Lewisham-born athlete hack picked up the mantle from the Brownlee brothers to keep the good times rolling for Team GB.
Paris 2024 is the first Olympics without a Brownlee since Athens 2004 after Alistair’s retirement and Jonny’s narrow failure to earn selection.
The rising star is faced a daunting task ahead of him but his success at Tokyo 2020 meant fans across the UK were cheering him on.
The 2024 men's triathlon had been postponed, because of concerns about pollution in the Seine.
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Who is Alex Yee?
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Alex Yee was born on February 18, 1998, and grew up in Lewisham, London.
In 2017, at just 19 years old and a week before resitting his A-levels, Yee competed in his first World Cup race in Cagliari, Italy.
In a high-speed race the triathlete came off his bike and collided with a concrete bollard and suffered broken ribs, vertebrae as well as a collapsed lung.
The star athlete refused to let the accident deter him as he recovered and continued to push for Olympic success.
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In 2019, he featured in the gold medal-winning relay team in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships in Nottingham along with Georgia Taylor-Brown, Ben Dijkstra, and Sophie Coldwell.
Alex went on to win Team GB's first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
He is currently dating Olivia Mathias.
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Alex Yee has already enjoyed success at the Olympics despite his young age.
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Yee won a sensational gold medal in the first-ever Olympic triathlon mixed relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Team GB star went on to pick up the silver medal in the individual event.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Alex trailed Hayden Wilde for much of the men's triathlon.
In a nail-biting final lap, Alex closed the gap and took first place.
What's Yee said about the Paris Olympics?
Alex Yee represented Team GB alongside , Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson and Kate Waugh in the triathlon.
“It’s special to be able to race with your teammates because even though people think it’s a very individual sport, we train and work so hard together, so it’s nice to be able to share that experience."
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Yee said ahead of the Olympics: "It’s such an iconic venue that we’re racing at and we’re so lucky to be able to swim in the Seine and ride up the Champs-Elysees, which I’ve grown up dreaming about racing.
“To actually be able to do it is really special.
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“We always seem to find a new level when it comes to racing as a team.
“It’s special to be able to race with your teammates because even though people think it’s a very individual sport, we train and work so hard together, so it’s nice to be able to share that experience."
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