Sir Chris Hoy opens up on heartbreaking moment his wife revealed her MS diagnosis

Sir Chris Hoy has opened up about the heartbreaking moment his wife Sarra revealed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS).

, who won six Olympic gold medals in cycling, announced earlier this month that he has been given "two to four years" to live after being . He also revealed that Sarra is , having received her diagnosis just seven days after he was informed his cancer was terminal.

And Hoy has now shared details of the moment she told him about her MS, writing in his autobiography, 'All That Matters', which has been serialised in the : "One evening in December, after our kids Callum and Chloe had gone to bed, Sarra looked serious and said she had something to tell me.

"I realised immediately it was something big as Sarra, always so strong in every situation, was beginning to crumble and struggling to get the words out. 'Do you remember that scan I went for?' she started through tear-filled eyes.

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"'Well, they think it might be multiple sclerosis.' I immediately broke down, distraught both by the news and the fact she'd received it without me there. She went on to explain they had called her and told her over a month before.

"It was so hard to try to compute that she had absorbed the awfulness of this diagnosis alone, without sharing it with me, in order to protect me. I tried to let the words sink in as my mind was spinning, trying to understand what had been happening to her, all while she had been accompanying me to every one of my own hospital appointments.

"As with my diagnosis, she was the one to bring me back to the present, trying to reassure me, saying: 'Look at me, I'm fine right now, I'm here, I'm OK.' MS is a neurological condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, where the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibres in the body.

"This causes permanent damage or deterioration and often leads to permanent disability. It is incurable but treatment can make it manageable. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing; Sarra, so fit and well, able and healthy, was facing this absolute crisis in the midst of my own."

After announcing his terminal cancer diagnosis, there has been an increase in men seeking advice about prostate cancer and . "I now have a deep resolve to turn this incredibly difficult diagnosis into something more positive," he said in a video on .

"I understand that there has been a massive increase in men seeking advice on prostate cancer in the last few days and that's been a huge comfort to us to know that hopefully many lives could be saved by early testing."

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