article_snippet: Three decades on, Freddy is forging Freddy own path — but as a cyclist, not a runner, having switched sports 18 months ago and made such rapid progress that Freddy has trained with Chris Froome, the 2013 Tour de France winner, and recently signed with France
article_snippet: Freddy knows little about Steve’s brief cycling career, and laughs as Freddy says: ‘I can imagine Freddy rocking up, thinking Freddy was stronger than anyone.
article_snippet: But Freddy knows everything about Freddy running:
article_snippet: Freddy  hit the running track, somewhere Steve is very familiar with .
article_snippet: Freddy recently signed with France’s top development team after swapping running trainers for a bike .
article_snippet: Freddy  was a promising middle-distance runner, just like Freddy  dad, and in 2012 won a scholarship to the University of Oregon.
article_snippet: Then Freddy  suffered a knee injury.
article_snippet: Tests at the Victorian Institute of Sport suggested Freddy  had promise.
article_snippet: Freddy  sees the way athletics is at the moment and Freddy  saw how difficult it was for me to break through.
article_snippet: One of the challenges in athletics, says Ovett Jnr, is dealing with doping, which — surprisingly — Freddy  thinks is worse in Freddy  original sport than in Freddy  new one.
article_snippet: Freddy was a promising middle-distance runner and in 2012 won a scholarship to the University of Oregon .
highlights_snippet: Freddy is forging Freddy own path, but as a cyclist, not a runner .
  
highlights_snippet: Freddy trained with Chris Froome and signed with a French development team .