On this day in 2013: Sir Chris Hoy announces his retirement from cycling

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By Smole in Sports
Updated 3 years ago

On this day in 2013, Sir Chris Hoy announced his retirement from cycling as Britain’s most successful Olympian. Hoy, 37 at the time, had held open the possibility of staying on to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow at the velodrome which bears his name, but concluded he could no longer compete at the highest level having battled injuries in the build-up to the 2012 London Games.

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