Bradley Wiggins fights back tears as he pays heartbreaking tribute to Sir Chris Hoy after terminal cancer diagnosis

After learning of Sir Chris Hoy’s terminal disease, Sir Bradley Wiggins paid a moving homage to “one of our greatest” people.

In October, 48-year-old track cyclist Hoy, a six-time Olympic winner, said that doctors had given him a two- to four-year survival estimate.

The 44-year-old Wiggins, who won the Tour de France for the first time and has won five Olympic titles, competed with Hoy in Team GB’s strong track cycling program for four Games from 2000 to 2012.

The two renowned cyclists have been friends for over twenty years.

And as he talked about Hoy’s terrible health problems, Wiggins started to cry.

“That hit everyone quite hard that,” he said in an interview with the High Performance Podcast. “Those of us who know Chris know what an absolute gentleman he is, what a heart of gold.”

“The best people have the worst fates, and he is a very wonderful person.

“I was with Chris the entire time I was an Olympian. I recall being in dope control in Athens when we were young, after we had both won gold—I the second night, he the first—and he was sitting there after winning the kilometer, asking, “Do you want to touch my medal?”

‘No, Chris, I’m going to try and win mine tomorrow night,’ I replied. I believed it would bring me misfortune.

“He was the first person who congratulated me when I won mine in Athens – came across the pen – and when I won my fifth in Rio he was there with Steve Redgrave at a BBC interview.”

“It’s tragic, it really is,” he continued. Beyond his skill on the bike, he is among our best in many other areas.

“Because I think a lot of people will benefit from what he’s doing and how he’s handled it. And he will leave behind an endless legacy.

In February, Hoy initially announced that he was receiving chemotherapy as part of his treatment.

His prostate had been found to have primary malignancy.

Nevertheless, Hoy has maintained that he still has “hope” even after acknowledging in October that his condition was now terminal.

Hoy, who has two kids, Callum, 10, and Chloe, 7, and a wife of 14 years, Sarra, said on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: “At the moment, the idea is to keep doing what I’m doing in terms of treatment because it’s working.

“Touch wood: the diagnosis was given between two and four years ago, but if you go further back, it can be many years.

“Some persons who have been in a similar circumstance for 20 years are still alive today. You are aware that there is hope.

“I’m fortunate to have access to treatment, and there is hope.” However, you are also unaware that it might be less. Ideally, you should focus on that aim for many years.