London traffic deters Brownlees from home advantage
London traffic deters Brownlees from home advantage - LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Home advantage at an Olympic Games can take many forms, including familiarity with the competition arena. But that won't be an issue in the men's triathlon on Tuesday - London's weather and notoriously heavy traffic have deterred even the local favourites training on the central city course. Jonathan Brownlee and his brother, world champion Alistair, have not been out on their bikes on the route, nor swum in the Serpentine, since they arrived in the Athletes' Village from training camps at altitude in St Moritz, Switzerland, and in the dales of their home county of Yorkshire. "We've swum in a local leisure centre not the Serpentine, and zipping around it [the... [World News]
