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@Oliver Schick
I agree with both you and Matt Seaton. Nicole Cooke is by far the best. I explain Chris Hoy's greater prominence by gender (sport is still so unbalanced, even in tennis), a greater gift for publicity, those eye-catching three golds in one go (people/the media look for momentary extremes rather than consistent track records), but also (and this is the only one that I can really agree with) greater length of service. He's been training and racing track since the early 90s, and Nicole Cooke is a young whippersnapper compared to him.