"I hope that ..."
Terminal cancer! Olympic hero hopes for a miracle
He is a six-time Olympic champion, eleven-time world champion and just 48 years old - but unless a miracle happens, Sir Chris Hoy doesn't have long to live! But that's exactly the kind of miracle the banhnrad legend is hoping for after announcing this February that he is suffering from terminal prostate cancer ...
"I hope that I can hold out for a few more years and that there will be a new discovery in the meantime, a new treatment method that will give me a few more years ..."
"... because I won't!"
You never know what's going to happen, Hoy told journalist Elizabeth Day in the podcast "How To Fail". He does not believe that he will survive, "because I won't" - but he does hope "that I can live again and enjoy every day".
Knighted by the Queen
And at least in the here and now, this hope is being fulfilled, he says, he has managed to "find his way back to life, which seemed unlikely a year ago".
Hoy won a total of six gold medals in various sprint disciplines at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2009 for his successes and can now call himself Sir Chris Hoy ...
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