The 48-year-old six-time Olympic cycling champion announced last week that he has two to four years to live – and that his wife, Sarra, was diagnosed with MS within weeks of his own devastating cancer news.
In an excerpt from his new memoir All That Matters: My Toughest Race Yet shared in The Sunday Times, Hoy praised his wife for her courage during this tumultuous period, and reflected on how she quietly dealt with the news of her “active and aggressive” MS diagnosis in the throes of her husband’s chemotherapy treatment. Hoy recalled that Sarra went for a routine MRI – seven days after his cancer diagnosis – for doctors to investigate a tingling sensation in her face and tongue.
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