Chris Hoy to announce retirement?

[RJ]

Apparently:

BBC Online - Sir Chris Hoy expected to announce retirement from cycling

Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy is expected to announce his retirement from cycling on Thursday.

The 37-year-old Scot is to hold a news conference in his home city of Edinburgh where it is thought he will make his decision public.

It is not known whether Hoy will retire immediately, or carry on with the 2014 Commonwealth Games taking place in Scotland.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The Grauniad is saying the same. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/apr/15/chris-hoy-retire-cycling?CMP=twt_fd

[Canardly]

Now c'mon u lot Sir Chris is 37. He has done us proud. The effort he must have put in for last year takes my breath away. He is not a spring lamb.

[Basil]

That's "Strictly" sorted for next year, then.

[Rhys W]

It's Monday and the story is "expected to announce on Thursday" FFS! It's like a George Osborne budget.

It would have been great to see him compete at the velodrome that bears his name though. I watched Team GB train at Newport last summer, pre-Olympics. They all turned up, tried to shut out the spectators and got on with their very specific training, then left the track as soon as they'd finished. Chris did a couple of laps high up on the banking, thanking people personally for turning up to support. Then I watched him speak to and sign autographs for about a hundred schoolkids who mobbed him at the exit before he was able to ride back to the Celtic Manor. Absolute gent.

[David Martin]

He is one of the nicest and most unassuming people I have had the pleasure to meet. Very big fans of Sir Chris in this household.

[andrew_s]

It is not known whether Hoy will retire immediately, or carry on with the 2014 Commonwealth Games taking place in Scotland.

He said immediately after the Olympics that he wouldn't do Rio, but may carry on until the Commonwealths.
If he is doing the Commonwealth Games, that's a "no change" position that doesn't really justify an announcement, so I would expect it's immediate retirement.

[rafletcher]

And it is as expected immediate retirement.

[robgul]

The Comic's e-mail weekly excelled itself today ... awarding "Sir"Chris Boardman a knighthood and then saying he was retiring  ..

Rob

[Canardly]

Extraordinairy acheivements of which he can be very proud (and we should be)

[Jaded]

It is a blow for independence.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

http://www.capitalfm.com/scotland/on-air/breakfast/show-blog/if-i-was-chris-hoy/

[fuzzy]

A great career and a bloody nice bloke.

At least I got to see him race in the flesh before he hung up his racing head.

[marcusjb]

What a true champion.

I saw him win his last gold at the Olympics and it was one of life's great experiences. 

I hope that he continues to be involved with the team in the future - he was always walking around the warm-up and resting areas talking to the younger riders etc.

Whatever he does, I wish him luck and happiness as he does always come across as the nicest man.