Chris Hoy has bought a beachfront home in Natal.
Hoy, 32, has spent £220,000 on the one-bedroom pad at Laguna Beach in Natal province on the country's north-eastern coast.
He plans to spend some time there with his lawyer girlfriend Sarra Kemp, 28.
The Edinburgh-born quadruple gold medallist said yesterday: "My life consists of a gruelling daily training schedule and, when you couple that with all the travel, the competition and my other engagements, I need somewhere special to go and relax.
"At Laguna Beach I think I will have found that place.
"I heard about Brazil after some of the guys came back from the BMX Championships which were held there last year and they were raving about it."
Hoy rents two flats, a twobedroom one in Edinburgh and another in Manchester to be near his training base at the city's velodrome.
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