True but a lot of people were and are uncertain whether top flight athletes can sustain themselves without eating meat. People were even doubting whether he would continue to perform well with a change halfway through the season.

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The belief that only eating meat can enable you to attain optimum health is beginning to change and this is reflected in the growing number of successful top level athletes switching to these diets.

Edited by sitdownstandup (30 Oct 2017 2.08pm)

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

And I love the fact he talks in a mid western american accent...dispite coming from stevenage.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

Plenty of top athletes are vegan, including Tom Brady; (now retired) Texans' running back Arian Foster; and Carl Lewis: yes, back when he was competing. If you think about it, the biggest land animals are all vegan; they get all their protein from eating plants. Animals cannot synthesize proteins

The difference is that getting protein secondhand from meat, not direct from plants, brings with it all the elements that cause heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, strokes and a large number of cancers.

Also, it's impossible to over-eat on a plant-based diet. You fill up long before you can do any harm to your body and the only side effects are that you consume a ton of beneficial nutrients and have a giant crap the next morning.

Edited by Ray in Houston (30 Oct 2017 4.44pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Love him or hate him, he is now clearly one of the best drivers of the modern era. Well done Lewis.!

In the latter half of his career when he wound down the sprinting. Why else would he have had the Carl Lewis grill? Not to get all the fat out his grilled veg.

Hamilton isn't a vegan yet but if Peter Siddle can sustain his, and Serena Williams her, frame as one I'm sure he'll be fine if he does it.

Optimistic as ever

Far from it. Hamilton won his first title on the last corner, of the last race of the season. They all love karting, if you think they aren't real racers then you have no idea about motorsport at all.

The grids are regularly mixed up nowadays via engine/grid penalties. Vettel started last in Malaysia and came 4th, for example. If you like shuffling the grid then watch the BTCC (but just race 3 of the weekend, as they use boring old qualifying for race 1 and race 1 results for race 2).

Optimistic as ever