Sir Chris Hoy tells Lorraine his children created a blossom tree to count down his chemotherapy treatment

Sir Chris Hoy has revealed his children created a blossom tree, adding blooms to the artwork each time he completed a round of chemotherapy.

The Olympian opened up about his terminal cancer diagnosis on Lorraine on Tuesday, telling the presenter about how he prepared his young children as he underwent treatment.

Hoy was diagnosed with cancer in February after a tumour was discovered in the 48-year-old’s shoulder. He had said the news had come as a “huge shock”.

He later announced in October that his cancer is terminal, after a second scan discovered primary cancer in his prostate, which has spread to his bones.

Doctors have told the cyclist he has between two and four years to live.

He told Lorraine: “We’ve told [the kids] the basics of it. Before I went in to do chemotherapy, we explained what was happening and yeah, we weren’t sure how I was going to respond to chemo. So it was important to let the kids know that actually, I’m going to be unwell but it’s because of the chemotherapy, it’s because of the treatment.”

Showing a picture of his two children with a piece of artwork, he explained how the youngsters ‘regrew’ a blossom tree to represent Hoy completing chemotherapy.

He added: “That was a little blossom tree that Sarra made, and after every day during chemo, they put a little blossom onto it.

“That was the very end of chemo. The tree had regrown and they had a lovely time putting that on each day. So it felt like in the difficult times during chemo, you can see that the tree is slowly growing and that was representative, they can visualise it.”

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