Britain's Alistair Brownlee celebrates after winning in the men's triathlon final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Hyde Park August 7, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Triathlon was invented in San Diego, made famous in Hawaii and polished on the beaches of Australia but the sport’s current epicentre, home to five Britons with serious Olympic prospects, is the slightly less glamorous northern British city of Leeds.
Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, gold and bronze medallists in the 2012 Games, have always been based in Yorkshire, eschewing warm-weather training camps in South Africa's Stellenbosch and Boulder, Colorado, that have attracted so many of their compatriots over the years to instead bike and run on the same lanes and fells they knew as boys.
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