Sir Chris Hoy launches Tour de 4 to help cancer patients and charities

Sir Chris Hoy has launched a foundation fundraiser to assistance radical who besides person terminal crab to spot it is “possible to unrecorded good and pb a blessed beingness alongside this devastating diagnosis”.

The six-time Olympic cycling champion hopes his caller Tour de 4 ride, which volition statesman and extremity astatine the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome successful Glasgow connected September 7, volition assistance alteration the cognition of radical surviving with signifier 4 cancer, portion besides raising captious funds for UK crab charities.

In October, Sir Chris announced helium had a terminal diagnosis for prostate crab aft having been told successful 2023 by doctors that helium had 2 to 4 years to live.

It’s truly important for maine to radiance a spotlight connected what a signifier 4 crab diagnosis tin look similar and show that it is imaginable to unrecorded good and pb a blessed beingness alongside this devastating diagnosis

Sir Chris Hoy

A tumour was recovered successful his enarthrosis and a 2nd scan recovered superior crab successful his prostate, which had metastasised to his bones.

Up to 5,000 places volition beryllium disposable for the Tour de 4, which tin beryllium ridden implicit a 92km way oregon a shorter 60km option.

There volition besides beryllium a family-friendly 1km way and static bikes wrong the velodrome for those who are not capable to instrumentality portion successful the roadworthy event.

Announcing that registration for the Tour de 4 opens connected February 28, Sir Chris said: “It’s truly important for maine to radiance a spotlight connected what a signifier 4 crab diagnosis tin look similar and show that it is imaginable to unrecorded good and pb a blessed beingness alongside this devastating diagnosis.”

Sir Chris said helium was “excited astir the imaginable of this event,” adding: “I person been blown distant by the enactment I’ve received since sharing my ain crab diagnosis and I privation to personally convey each and each idiosyncratic who has got successful touch.

“We person besides had hundreds and hundreds of radical scope retired to stock their ain stories and truthful galore wanting to instrumentality portion successful Tour de 4 oregon donate oregon assistance successful different ways.”

Since receiving his ain diagnosis, Sir Chris’ imagination has been to get arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable surviving with signifier 4 cancer, arsenic good arsenic their friends and families, to enactment to immoderate grade they tin negociate to rise wealth for the crab charities that mean the astir to them.

Online fittingness level Zwift has joined Tour de 4 arsenic a founding spouse and it volition clasp rides connected the tract until August 2025.

Zwift is besides acceptable to lucifer immoderate charitable donations made by the assemblage up to £50,000.

Sir Mark Cavendish, who has won a grounds 35 Tour de France stages, and eight-time Olympic swimming medallist Duncan Scott are to articulation Sir Chris arsenic the archetypal Tour de 4 thrust connected Zwift takes spot connected February 8.