London. Britain’s Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic cycling champion, revealed on Saturday that he has terminal cancer and that doctors have given him two to four years to live.
The 48-year-old former track runner announced in February that he had been diagnosed with the disease but was being treated with chemotherapy, which was “going very well.”
However, he now admitted to The Sunday Times that by then he already knew that the disease was terminal.
When he asked the doctors how long he had left to live, they told him “two to four years.”
“We were all born and we will all die, this is part of the process,” Hoy told the newspaper.
The former athlete also revealed that his wife Sara was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hoy began practicing track cycling in his teens and won his first Olympic medal, silver on a sprint team, at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Four years later he became Olympic champion by winning a one-kilometer time trial in Athens.
He increased his medal haul with three golds at the 2008 Beijing Games and two at London 2012.
He also won 11 world titles before retiring from competitive cycling in 2013.
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