Sibling rivalry

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Alistair and Jonny Brownlee reflected on their amazing triathlon success as they joined Sky Sports News after winning gold and bronze at London 2012.

The Otley brothers have been a revelation in the world of triathlon, and they could well have finished first and second had Jonny not been given a 15-second penalty for mounting his bike just centimetres too soon.

Both of them being on the podium was still a massive achievement for the Brownlees though, and Alistair was especially glad to come home in front having suffered a serious injury only in February.

"It's fantastic," he told Sky Sports News. "This has been our big goal for a long time now, and for both of us first to qualify last year, both of us to arrive here fit and for not too much to go wrong in the race and for both of us to pull it off on the day was amazing."

The only thing to go wrong was that penalty for younger brother Jonny, and it took a while for him to realise he had been penalised.

Penalty

"I've never had a penalty in triathlon before," Jonny said. "I realised after about 12km of the bike I had a penalty - actually I thought at first Alistair had a penalty, and I thought what an idiot!

"Then I looked at my arm and saw it was my number then realised it was me! I panicked for a little bit but spoke to Alistair and he told me to calm down.

"It's a horrible feeling in a race to have to stop like that, I've never done it before, 15 seconds is a long time when you see people running away from you. It was hard to get going again but I had to just focus."

Meanwhile, back at the head of the race, Alistair realised that he was going to win gold, and we confident his bronze had the bronze in the bag, and he ended up walking across the line after picking up a flag to celebrate his victory.

"By that point in the race I knew I was feeling pretty good and had enough to hold on to it for the last 3km, and I knew Jonny was clear enough to get the bronze so I thought it'd be OK.

"The first thing was I was so tired, I was lucky I had a big enough gap to slow down and enjoy myself a bit, but I just wanted to cross that line and have a lay down."

The brothers work brilliantly as a team during their triathlon races, but Jonny admits they are just as competitive as any other siblings.

"There's a massive sibling rivalry," Jonny admitted. "We're very competitive in everything, we're actually more competitive in other sports than in triathlon.

"But Alistair's been great for my career, he's been a barrier breaker for me, when he qualified for Beijing in 2008 I thought I can do that too, so now he's got a gold medal I'm thinking I can get one too, so he's been great for me."