Sir Chris Hoy delivers health update amid treatment for cancer

Now, the former Olympian cyclist has provided a positive update on his condition.

“I’m doing well,” the 48-year-old told Sky Sports. “The best shape I’ve been in for over a year. I’m physically not in any pain at all.

“Treatment has worked really well, everything is stable and I couldn’t have responded better to it.

“So basically in the current situation – the best-case scenario – I’m very grateful. It’s been an unimaginable year.

“Eighteen months ago, if you told me this is what was coming up, you couldn’t have imagined it, but that’s life, isn’t it?

“You get curveballs. It’s how you deal with it, and how you make a plan and move forward.

“I’ve been so lucky to have genuinely amazing people around me, from family, friends, medical support, the general public.”

He added: “For me, my purpose is spreading awareness about it, trying to get men to go and get checked.

“It’s a very simple thing to deal with if you catch it early enough.

“I realise how far I’ve come now. There’s no way I could have sat here talking to you six months ago. I would have been a gibbering wreck.

“The overall hope was that it would help people, not just people going through a cancer diagnosis.

“But that you can get through the most extreme situations and pop out the other end, whilst you still have hope and are able to live your life.”