After adding two more gold medals to his already impressive list career of accomplishments, Britain’s most decorated Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy, is likely to announce his retirement from track cycling this week, according to the British Press.
Hoy, 37, has six career golds and one silver in track cycling, and earned back-to-back championships in the team sprint and Keirin disciplines as he led the Brits to a dominant performance on their home track last summer.
“It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, if indeed, he does retire,” BBC Sport’s Jill Douglas opined Monday. “He’s had a long holiday and been busy developing his new bike brand and he will have thought long and hard about any decision he has made.”
The only real surprise is that Hoy, a born Scotsman, won’t compete in the 2014 Commonwealth in his home city of Glasgow next year on the track that was literally named after him. But Hoy has previously said he didn’t want to compete if he doesn’t think he can win, so the fact that he didn’t race in February’s world track cycling championships seems to mean he’s done with competitive cycling.