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Gender Male
Age 48
Web site www.chrishoy.com
Date of birth March 23,1976
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Height 185 (cm)
Spouse Sarra Kemp
Olympic_medalsCycling At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Keirin
Children Callum David Robert Hoy
Job Athlete
Education George Watson's College
University of St Andrews
Moray House School of Education
The University of Edinburgh
Awards BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
National Television Award for Landmark Achievement
Olympic medalCycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint
Weight 93 (kg)
Siblings Carrie Hoy
Parents David Hoy
Carol Hoy
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Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy MBE is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Hoy is eleven-times a world champion and six-times an Olympic champion.

Coronavirus: The Sport-turn to the gaming during lockdown

Feb 16,2020 9:16 am

Boxes must be re-configured as a virtual sports than the real-life struggles

The stamp to be moved, came in the seventh round: a stinging left hook from Joe Frazier to the jaw of Lennox Lewis .

The former British world champion tried to regain his feet, but stumbled back and was counted out by the referee.

Smokin' Joe lifted his glove in the victory, as thousands of fans watching At Home together the historic moment.

In fact, everyone was Home including the Boxer, which was of course a long time in silence.

Lewis was just out of self-Isolation . He tweeted: "congratulations to Smokin' Joe for a Big Win . He caught me with a great shot. I was never really able to recover from. Hats Off to him!"

The event was the latest virtual combat, organized by The World Boxing series (WBSS).

Since the coronavirus was forced to be cancelled by The Company , all to keep his real-life events, it was after the game, the fans entertained, with the largest-ever heavy weights pitted against each in a tournament of the series streamed online.

The Wheel fixes Invent are famous under The Wheel of the Formula 1 race, in the competition of your sofas

The battles are played, with computer-to-computer-simulations of the 2011 Electronic Arts -the game Fight Night Champion.

Boxing fans around The World were tuning in, with The First two competitions, the nearly half A Million people, according to The Company .

Co-founder and promoter of the WBSS (and now the eWBSS), Kalle Sauerland , he says, and the industry are desperate for the pandemic, so he can fill Back To the arenas again. But the German-born, London-bred organizer says he was Blown Away by the response to his e-sports experiment.

"It is a great success So Far and it's growing," He Said . "We still think Boxing promoters at The End of all of this, but I, now is The Time to reinvent The Wheel is something to entertain people. "

the wheels are re-invented, throughout The World , across many different sports.

Formula 1 -streamed for The First time with Virtual Grand Prix , with full expert commentary team. Celebrities such as singer Liam Payne and cyclist Sir Chris Hoy played against each other and teams from their own homes, in Isolation .

For the e-Sport regulars such as Johan Sundstein, the new interest in what you do is amusing

television outlets on The Action too. In the USA, More Than 900,000 viewers tuned in for The First eNascar iRacing Pro Invitational-series on Fox Sports . The Network has said it will host race a whole series of stock car, to replace those lost through the pandemic.

For the e-Sport regulars such as Johan Sundstein it is an amusing turn of events. The 26-year-old, known as online N0tail, at the top of the ranking of The Most successful e-sports player of all time, netting nearly $7 million (£5. 85m) So Far , the prize money for playing Dota 2 .

"We had this eternal conflict of sports vs. e-sports, and we have been accused of, you need to copy it from the Sports Scene , and now we see The Sports of The World a note from the e-Sports World , the I funny find. "

Sundstein is currently in Isolation in his Home in Portugal, but the Danish Pro is That you can adapt to the circumstances, as a competition was in the Last Minute canceled because of The Virus .

"It was a bitter thing, That you cancelled our tournament," He Said . "Personally, I had an extended break and I was really excited to receive this and it was taken from me in front of my nose. I am fond of, miss it. "

The e-sports star has its name and its riches to play for the masses all over The World and is now trying to streaming to keep you busy and in touch with his fans. He admits That for The Next few months, at least, "That 's where the viewers are."

The big e-sports companies know That too, and so big prize money events will be built to make The Most of the near-global lockdown.

Popular Basketball Game , Nba 2K is hosting its first "3-on-3" tournament, where players can enter online for a prize pool of $25,000.

Gamer Amy Bayliss explosion has seen more viewers on Twitch

game-streaming in General, in the popularity. On Twitch, the largest platform games, week in and week out commitment of More Than 1 grows with an average concurrent viewers now. 5 million, according to Twitch Tracker.

Amy Bayliss, known by their fans as Bamyleaf, creeks, four days a week on Twitch and says they noticed to pay a recovery only in the viewer, but also in conversation, when you are online.

"There are a lot of people turn To Live -streaming, right now, because you are At Home and bored, and everyone feels isolated," she says. "But it's not just tuning, in order to see decent gameplay, it is just so much belonging and community. "

The Number of people who play actually also always. On Steam, the largest PC gaming platform in The World , a new record was achieved on Sunday, 20. 7m players are actively playing or chatting on The Platform at the same time.

With The Boom of the concerns of some of the pages to come about how much bandwidth is used for games and The Strain That puts it on the internet-networks. Gaming is relatively easy for the use of the Internet, but the downloading of the games themselves can be very bandwidth-heavy.

in order To combat this, Playstation recently restricted download speeds in the whole of Europe, and other companies, including Twitch, have also reduced the quality of the stream in order to help internet-service-deal with providers, and the General stress you are under now.

The gaming industry, so it seems hard to ride The Wave of popularity, while minimizing the impact on the services The Boom .



esports, self-isolation, coronavirus pandemic, gaming

Source of news: bbc.com

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