Sir Chris Hoy's wife in tears on BBC Breakfast: 'Thinking about him'

Sir Chris Hoy's wife was left in tears on BBC Breakfast after completing the Tour de 4 - a charity bike ride organised by her Olympian husband to raise awareness and funds for those living with Stage 4 cancer. Sir Chris was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer in 2024, but says his condition is "stable" while undergoing "constant treatment". Given a prognosis of between two and four years to live, Chris said his cancer is "not the first thing he thinks about in the mornings".

At the end of the charity bike ride, he and his wife Sarra Kemp were quizzed on their feelings - and Sarra couldn't help but burst into tears. Still decked out in cycling gear, she told the BBC: "It's just a date that's been in the calendar for so long. Just to be able to be there and doing it and thinking about Chris, everybody's here all doing it for somebody else as well... It's just brilliant. I'm just really super proud to be part of it, just a tiny cog in this massive machine of which everybody's joining in."

Chris himself added: "Wonderful, such an uplifting day and I think everybody is enjoying themselves. We're showing what we can do and we're raising money for very important causes and charities, and yeah...

"Thank you to everybody who's come down and made this a success, because the support has been genuinely astonishing."

Sir Chris and Lady Hoy married in 2010 in a lavish ceremony at Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral, and they went on to welcome a son and a daughter together, Callum, 10 and Chloe, seven. Sarra is living with MS and has "good and bad days" - though their children don't know about their mum's diagnosis.

Chris made a heartbreaking confession about his children, explaining that he didn't want to tell them off at first as he wanted to be remembered as "the perfect father who always says yes".

But he went on: "You realise that phase is very short. It feels like the family routine is as it was before, which I think is remarkable, really. That will definitely change, obviously, but I think for now we're just getting on with life, and it just feels like we're in a nice spot."