Sir Chris Hoy says he’ll be ‘living with cancer for the rest my life’ in emotional message to fans after ‘huge shock’

SIR Chris Hoy has breached his soundlessness and issued a wellness update for the archetypal clip since helium revealed his crab is terminal.

The Scottish cycling hero, 48, shared a touching video connected societal media, thanking fans for their enactment pursuing his devastating diagnosis.

The sporting legend, who won six golden medals and a metallic crossed 5 Olympic Games, first revealed that helium was battling the illness backmost successful February and said helium was undergoing chemotherapy.

He had been diagnosed with superior crab successful his prostate.

But recently, successful an interrogation with The Times, he announced that his crab is present terminal, with the crab spreading into his bones.

Sir Chris was told by doctors that helium has 2 to 4 years to live.

Speaking for the archetypal clip astir his wellness pursuing his terminal crab announcement, the cyclist said successful the video: "Hi everyone, I conscionable wanted to stock an update astir my health, aft telling you that I was receiving attraction for cancer.

"I'm truthful grateful to everyone for their unthinkable kindness and support. You person heard by present that I'm acceptable to stock that my crab is signifier 4: I volition beryllium surviving with it for the remainder of my life.

"Now it's not the quality anyone imagines hearing, and it evidently came arsenic a immense shock.

"We've taken clip to process it arsenic a household and I present person a heavy resoluteness to crook this incredibly hard diagnosis into thing much affirmative that tin assistance not conscionable me, but anyone anyplace surviving with signifier 4."

Sir Chris added that helium is "utterly blown by the emotion and support".

And has recovered the immense summation successful men seeking proposal astir prostate crab successful the past fewer days "a immense comfortableness that hopefully galore lives could beryllium saved by aboriginal testing".

He added: "I'm talking to you cognize due to the fact that amidst it each I've made the determination to constitute it each successful a book.

"It's been cathartic and it's a precise important portion of however I've been capable to process this quality with my household and for myself implicit the past fewer months."

His publication called All That Matters is each astir however the household person coped with the devastating diagnosis.

Hoy said: "I’m truly arrogant of it and I anticipation it tin assistance anyone facing immoderate benignant of situation successful their life, not conscionable cancer.

"It’s besides been a accidental to dispersed the connection astir my foundation lawsuit taking spot adjacent twelvemonth called ‘Tour de 4’, I can’t hold to archer you much astir this successful owed course.

"The publication is coming retired successful November. To pre-order All That Matters, oregon for further accusation spot the nexus successful the bio. Thanks everyone."

It was besides antecedently revealed his woman Sarra was diagnosed with incurable and degenerative MS (multiple sclerosis) conscionable weeks earlier Sir Chris got his crab news.

But the mates person decided to support her unwellness from their 2 kids.

Taking to Instagram today, the mum said Sir Chris was her "real beingness superhero".