Sir Chris Hoy forced to move room at 4am after shocking blunder from fellow guest

Scottish Sun

03-05-2025

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SIR Chris Hoy was rudely awoken at 4am after a hotel guest's blunder forced him to move room.
The Scottish cycling legend, 49, attended the Ring Drivers' Convention in Nurburg, Germany, yesterday and enjoyed a spin in a Porsche 992 GT3 RS alongside Top Gear presenter Chris Harris.
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Sir Chris Hoy was rudely awakened at 4am after a hotel guest's blunder forced him to move room
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He attended the Ring Drivers' Convention in Nurburg yesterday
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The cycling great, 49, shared a video on social media capturing the carnage
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He shared a selfie of the pair on social media, captioning it: "First time on the @nuerburgring, what a flippin' place. Thought I'd jump in for a passenger lap with this guy in his 992 GT3 RS to learn the lines. Says he knows what he's doing…"
The six-time Olympic gold medallist is no stranger to motorsports, having taken up racing after retiring from cycling in 2013.
But while away in Germany, Hoy, who is battling terminal cancer, faced an unexpected ordeal during his overnight stay at a hotel.
He was forced to pack up and move rooms in the middle of the night when his bathroom flooded after the guest in the room above left their bath running.
Sir Chris later posted a video on his Instagram story capturing the chaos.
The footage showed water pouring from the light fixture and pooling on the bathroom floor.
Frustrated Hoy wrote: "Big shoutout to the person who left their bath running upstairs and caused me to have to move rooms at 4am."
It comes after the cycling legend announced in February last year that he was battling prostate cancer.
A tumour was found in his shoulder, and a scan later found the primary cancer in his prostate.
It has since metastasised to his bones - including his pelvis, ribs and spine.
And just weeks before he was told he had up to four years left to live, Hoy's wife Sarra, 44, was also diagnosed with incurable multiple sclerosis.
MS is a degenerative and incurable disease.
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It can affect the brain or spinal cord and impair vision and movement.
We told previously how the couple have refused to "become victims" amid their health battles.
In an interview to air on Lorraine Kelly's ITV show today, Lady Hoy discussed their struggles since receiving the news.
She said: "You just don't sleep, everything is awful. It was about trying to control what I could.
"I just thought, I can't do anything about cancer, I can't do anything about MS. What can I do? What can I help? What can I change?"