LONDON (AP) – Chris Hoy, who represented Great Britain at four Olympic Games and won six gold medals, has revealed that he has terminal prostate cancer.
Hui, 48, made the announcement in an interview with British media. sunday times Newspaper ahead of the publication of his memoir next month. The former competitive cyclist previously said he was undergoing cancer treatment, without going into details of his diagnosis.
According to reports, Hui's cancer was discovered in September 2023 when she sought treatment for what she thought was a stiff shoulder. Scans revealed that the prostate cancer had spread to his shoulders, hips, pelvis, spine and ribs.
Doctors told Hui that her cancer was incurable and that she was likely to die within two to four years, the paper said.
“And just like that, I learned how I was going to die,” Hoy writes in a memoir titled “Everything Matters: My Toughest Race.” .
Hoy is one of Britain's best-known athletes, having won 11 World Championship gold medals and six Olympic gold medals during a cycling career spanning over 10 years.
Hoy's Olympic career began at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where he won a silver medal in the team sprint. He won gold in the 1,000m time trial in Athens in 2004, won gold in the team sprint, sprint and keirin at the 2008 Beijing Games, and won gold in the team sprint and keirin in front of his home crowd at the 2012 Olympics. won two more gold medals. In London.
