The right track
Daily Mirror UK|October 29, 2024
Call to rename 2012 velodrome after Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy
JEREMY ARMSTRONG
The right track

THE London 2012 Velodrome should be named in honour of Sir Chris Hoy, his army of supporters said yesterday.

They want the legendary Olympic cyclist, who has been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, to be remembered for ever for his legacy.

Now known as Lee Valley VeloPark, it reopened two years after the 2012 Olympics as a public cycling centre.

Sir Chris, 48, has been given two to four years to live and charities said his decision to go public would help others with Stage Four cancer.

London cabby Paul Daly, 60, a Mirror reader and keen cyclist, said: "I had the luck to meet Sir Chris about two years ago. He was a gentleman, a lovely guy.

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