Brilliant Olly Is Our Brightest Hope ; the Young Triathlete and Rising Academic Star Is Holding Back On His Studies in Favour of a Bid for Olympic Glory. The Evening Standard's Twelve for London 2012

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YOU HAVE to work hard to squeeze it out of him but when you try to pin him down about exactly how brainy he actually is, Olly Freeman, despite his boyish modesty, is frankly defenceless. "Well, yes, at physics A-level I did get one of the top five marks in the country," he concedes under interrogation.

And what about his 11 GCSEs, all passed with A-star grades? And the four A-levels, again all grade As, in double maths, chemistry and physics? And the incredible 94 per cent mark in one of his mathematics modules? All true, shrugs a lad who was one of the most gifted schoolboy science scholars in the land.

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Brilliant Olly Is Our Brightest Hope ; the Young Triathlete and Rising Academic Star Is Holding Back On His Studies in Favour of a Bid for Olympic Glory. The Evening Standard's Twelve for London 2012

The best measure of that gift? Well, he's been offered a place at Cambridge University to study natural sciences at Clare College and, though he keeps saying "not at the moment, thanks", remarkably they are holding ...

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