Former track cycling star Sir Chris Hoy speaks openly about his cancer. “We all die,” says the Scot.
Great Britain’s track cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy has made details of his cancer public. The six-time Olympic track cycling champion told the Sunday Times in an interview that he had terminal cancer and that the disease was incurable. The 48-year-old Scot told the newspaper that doctors had given him a life expectancy of two to four years.
Hoy announced in February that he had cancer, which he had been diagnosed with last year. He had not yet provided any information about the type of cancer.
The prostate cancer had spread to his bones, Hoy said. Tumors were also discovered in the shoulder, pelvis, hip, spine and rib. “As unnatural as it feels, that’s nature,” Hoy said. “We’re all born and we all die, and that’s just part of the process.”
Hoy won gold six times in various sprint disciplines at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. For his successes, he was knighted by the then Queen Elizabeth II in 2009 and can call himself Sir Chris Hoy.
Source: Stern
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