Hoy, wife provide solace for each other's ills

The 49-year-old six-time Olympic track cycling gold medallist was told he had two to four years to live in February last year, but he said he uses his "competitive spirit" to push him on with "actual events and goals".

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The Scotsman said he asked Steve Peters, the psychiatrist he worked with for the majority of his professional career, to look up who had lived the longest with prostate cancer as he felt it would be too much for Sarra.

However, in other respects the 11-time world track cycling champion and his wife do address their respective conditions when one or the other is feeling low.

"We support each other," said Hoy.

"Because when she's feeling strong and if I'm feeling low then she is unmovable and she will not crumble.

"She'll talk me round and she'll make me feel better, and hopefully she would say the same in reverse when she isn't having such a great time.

"It's very rare that we're both in the pit together. It's kind of one at a time.

"That's the unofficial rule."