I'm Mr Nobody ; Money and Fame Are Off the Agenda for Record-Breaking Triathlete Brownlee [Edition 4]

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ALISTAIR BROWNLEE is rated the best in the world at one of the most gruelling of sports. But he earns less in a year than the average Premier League footballer takes home every week and admits the average fan has never even heard of him.

'I've never been recognised in the street and nobody has ever come up to me in a pub and offered to buy me a pint because I'm famous,' he says. 'When it happens, I'll know I've really made it.' The way he is progressing, though, pub regulars could soon be queueing up to share a drink with the 21-year-old Yorkshireman. For Brownlee is on the brink of setting a record for becoming a triathlon world champion at junior, under-23 and senior level.

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I'm Mr Nobody ; Money and Fame Are Off the Agenda for Record-Breaking Triathlete Brownlee [Edition 4]

And three years before the 2012 Olympics in London, he is emerging as one of Team GB's brightest hopes for a gold medal after dominating the 2009 triathlon season.

In 13 days' time h...

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