article_snippet.sent: A television reporter put A television reporter microphone under McCoy’s nose and paid fulsome tribute to McCoy, telling McCoy McCoy wanted to thank McCoy not just for today but the last 20 years.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy stands alongside men like Andy Murray, Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins as the greatest modern British sportsmen.
article_snippet.sent: ‘If I could say one thing to all the guys in the weighing room,’ McCoy said, ‘it would be to enjoy it as much as they can because the end doesn’t half come around very quick.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy, who was named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010 after he finally won the Grand National, was given plenty of opportunities to talk about the benefits a life without racing might bring.
article_snippet.sent: Apart from my wife and kids,’ McCoy added, hurriedly.
article_snippet.sent: A few years ago, McCoy talked about the realities that McCoy wife had had to live with as the partner of a man so utterly dedicated to a dangerous sport.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy recalled the moment they had been for a fertility check and were told that McCoy’s habit of taking hot baths every day to sweat weight off had made McCoy sperm count abnormally low.