Sir Chris Hoy issues positive health update after his terminal cancer diagnosis as Olympic legend reveals he is ‘feeling good’ and has entered a ‘stabiltiy stage’
Sir Chris Hoy has revealed that he is ‘feeling good’ and has entered a ‘stability stage’ amid his battle with cancer.
The legendary cyclist, 49, was diagnosed with Stage four prostate cancer in September 2023 following a routine check on a shoulder strain showed a tumour, before a further scan revealed the primary cancer to be in his prostate which had spread to his bones.
The six-time Olympic gold medallist first said he was having cancer treatment last February before he made the prognosis public in October, adding he only had two to four years to live despite undergoing chemotherapy.
He has now offered a positive update on his health, admitting that cancer is not the ‘first thing’ he thinks about in the morning.
Hoy, who became Scotland’s most succesful Olympian in 2008, told Sky Sports: ‘I’ve entered a bit of a stability stage at the moment.
‘I’m feeling good, exercising, riding the bike, busy and most importantly cancer is not the first thing I think about in the morning when I wake up and it’s not the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.
Sir Chris Hoy has said he is ‘feeling good’ and has entered a ‘stability stage’ in his cancer battle
The cycling legend revealed he had been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in October
Chris Hoy became Scotland’s most succesful Olympian ever during the 2008 Beijing Olympics
‘I feel good, you know, I’m on constant medications, constant treatment, but it’s not interfering too much with my life. And the most important thing is it’s working, so I’m stable at the moment, everything’s good. So making hay while the sun shines.’
Hoy previously admitted it is hard to be ‘positive all the time’ and that you have to ‘find hope’ while battling the illness, but that he is still planning ‘big exciting things’ for the future.
He had urged thousands of men to check their likelihood of suffering with prostate cancer and admitted seeing other people catching it early has given him ‘purpose’.
‘I didn’t think about what the potential outcomes of going public with my diagnosis might be,’ the Olympic hero said.
‘But when you hear from people, when you speak to people who tell you that they have gone and had a PSA test off the back of your diagnosis, they have gone and they’ve found that they had no symptoms, no problems at all, but they had a check and it turns out they’ve got cancer too, but they’ve caught it early enough to treat it and to cure it.
‘It makes sense of the situation, it makes sense of my situation.
‘That lifts you up a huge amount. It gives you hope, it gives you a purpose. I can’t believe the position I’m in now compared to 18 months ago.
The 11-time world champion said he is appreciating life more than ever, enjoying the little things, and is at a point he ‘never imagined’ he would be able to reach.
Sir Chris Hoy’s wife Sarra was told she had incurable multiple sclerosis after his diagnosis
Hoy said he is ‘feeling good’ and ‘cancer is not the first thing I think about in the morning’
Hoy retired in 2013 before acting as a pundit and commentator for the BBC.
The father-of-two said he received the ‘biggest shock’ of his life after tumours were discovered in his shoulder, pelvis, hip, spine and rib.
He later released a brave public statement confirming his diagnosis.
‘Initially, it’s not easy,’ he said. ‘We tried to keep it private and keep it to ourselves in the first few weeks and months, just to get our heads around the situation.
‘Our hand was forced initially in that a journalist started snooping around, so we had to make an announcement that I’d been diagnosed with cancer.
‘I was going through treatment at that point, through chemotherapy, but that I was doing OK and would explain more in due course. That was probably the hardest part, explaining the full situation. It was a big step but we knew it was the right thing to do.
‘I think it’s almost not wanting speculation. You want to be sure that the facts are out there. The less you give, the more people are going to speculate and the more the media are going to pry and maybe come up with false information.
The father-of-two said he received the ‘biggest shock’ of his life after tumours were found
Hoy’s kids were aged six and nine when he was diagnosed with cancer in September 2023
‘We thought, “let’s get on the front foot, let’s tell the story how it is.”
‘One of the biggest motivators personally was it means I can do a positive thing, which is setting up a charity event next year. Then you have a purpose.
‘For me now, this is my purpose.’
Hoy has two children, Callum and Chloe, with his wife Sarra.
He is involved in an annual ‘Tour de 4’ charity fundraising bike ride for cancer patients, which aims for ‘as many people as possible who have been affected by cancer’ to cycle from Glasgow to Edinburgh every summer.
