19 Dec BBC-Sir Chris Hoy – Cancer, Courage & Me
Extracted from the BBC Sport website and referencing the programme on Sir Chris Hoy.
However, the highs of September’s Tour de Four raising more than £3m for cancer charities across the UK, were followed in November by the UK National Screening Committee’s recommendation that a prostate screening cancer programme for all men in the UK was not justified.
For Hoy, the fight to raise money and raise awareness is his new Olympic-sized mission and his response therefore was dignified, yet resolutely determined.
“I was quite astonished,” he said. “I can’t believe that the answer to this situation is to sit on your hands and do nothing. There are 10,000 men a year in the UK who find out they have prostate cancer too late – it’s incurable.
“We’re failing these men if we don’t do something proactive. Regardless, I’m going to keep pushing.”
Again, we meet his Olympic-honed mindset, targeted on a bigger mission.
“The Olympics was something that was my life for so many years and drove me on,” Hoy says.
“I’m still incredibly proud of it now and I look back with great fondness, but this is something on an entirely different level.
“It’s more important than riding bikes in anti-clockwise circles, put it that way.”
It’s a good programme, see link below.
