The six-time Olympic track cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy (47) looks to the future “optimistically and positively” despite a cancer diagnosis.
The Scot, who won gold in Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, wrote this on Instagram on Friday. The disease was diagnosed last year and the chemotherapy was going “very well”. “As you can imagine, the last few months have been very difficult. But I’m doing well at the moment,” wrote Hoy.
Christopher Andrew Hoy, known only as Chris in Great Britain, had already won silver in the team sprint at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
This was followed by Olympic triumphs in the time trial, sprint, keirin and team sprint as well as eleven world championship titles. In 2012 he was flag bearer for Team GB at the London Summer Games. He had already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2009.