Sir Chris Hoy feels ‘lucky’ to have time with family after cancer diagnosis

Sir Chris Hoy admits his cancer diagnosis has put the pressure of his cycling career into perspective and insists he feels “lucky” to have time to spend with his family.

The six-time Olympic champion revealed last month in a Sunday Times interview that his cancer is terminal after he first made public in February that he was undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy.

A tumour was found in Hoy’s shoulder and a second scan found primary cancer in his prostate, which has metastasised to his bones.

During a BBC documentary titled ‘Sir Chris Hoy: Finding Hope’ to be broadcast on Tuesday, Hoy urged men – especially those with a family history of prostate cancer – to ask their GP for a free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.

The 48-year-old Scot also revealed he is planning a charity bike ride in 2025 for people with stage four cancers to show “many people can still have very full and happy lives, and healthy lives, dealing with it”.

“I’m not saying everybody’s in the same boat but there’s hope out there,” Hoy said.

“Look at me now, six months on from finishing chemo and I’m riding my bike every day, I’m in the gym, I’m physically active, I’m not in pain. When people talk about battles with cancer, for me the biggest battle is between your ears.

“It’s the mental struggle, it’s the challenge to try and deal with these thoughts, deal with the implications of the news you’re given.

“When you hear terminal illness, terminal cancer, you just have this image in your head of what it is, what it’s going to be like.

“And everybody’s different, and not everybody is given the time that I’ve been given – and that’s why I feel lucky. We genuinely feel lucky, as crazy as that might sound, because we’ve got the time.”

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