Sports legend, a cyclist announced terrible news a few weeks ago.
This is terrible news in the world of cycling. A few months ago, in February, a legend recognized and respected by all announced that she was suffering from cancer… If the announcement of the illness was brutal, another speech, which occurred a a few weeks this time, is even more so because we learned that the cancer of this high-level athlete was incurable.
“As abnormal as it may seem, it’s the law of nature. We are born and we die. I tell myself that I’m lucky to have medicine to take to combat this for as long as possible,” launched with fatality this cyclist who was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth II for his entire career and for what he brought to his sport and his country.
This cyclist is Chris Hoy. The 48-year-old Scot, six-time Olympic track cycling champion, is today facing a dramatic diagnosis with terminal prostate cancer and, above all, a life expectancy estimated at between two and four years.
The Scot assured at the start of the year that the treatment “was going very well and he was optimistic.” But the disease metastasized to his bones, to his shoulder, pelvis, ribs and spine. Sir Chris Hoy commentated on the track events at the Paris Olympic Games for the BBC and even opened a day of competition with the famous three strokes of the stick.
Lucid and particularly stoic in the face of the outcome that now awaits him, the British legend announced to the Sunday Times that she was writing and recording her memoirs, which will appear on November 7 under the title All That Matters: My Toughest Race Yet (“What really matters: my hardest race”). “There is so much positivity that can come out of all of this, from all angles. I am very happy that this book can help people”explained Chris Hoy.
And there is plenty to write about. The athlete won a silver medal in team sprint in 2000 at the Sydney Games, then won his first individual Olympic title in the kilometer four years later in Athens. You can add three more gold medals in Beijing (2008), then two more in London (2012). The former cyclist is also eleven times world champion… A true legend.