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Son for Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra | Son for Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra |
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Sir Chris Hoy has announced that he and his wife Sarra have a new son, their first child. | |
Callum David Robert Hoy was born at just 29 weeks. | Callum David Robert Hoy was born at just 29 weeks. |
The cycling champion and Olympic gold medallist announced his retirement from competitive sport last year. | The cycling champion and Olympic gold medallist announced his retirement from competitive sport last year. |
Sir Chris tweeted: "Amazed, delighted & a little shocked to announce the birth of our beautiful baby son, Callum David Robert Hoy! Born at 29weeks, today at 2pm." | Sir Chris tweeted: "Amazed, delighted & a little shocked to announce the birth of our beautiful baby son, Callum David Robert Hoy! Born at 29weeks, today at 2pm." |
A few minutes later, he added: "Although v. early days for wee Callum, he's doing well as is Sarra. Huge thanks to incredible medical staff." | |
The former cyclist was flooded with messages congratulating him and his family. | |
Fellow Olympic gold-medallist Rebecca Adlington tweeted: "congratulations to you both! Hope Sarra is going well as well as baby Callum! Xx" | |
Sir Chris thanked everyone for their support and said: "Wow! Thanks for the huge load of messages coming in, I'm reading as many of them as I can to Sarra and Callum." | |
He previously spoke of his excitement about becoming a father for the first time. | |
"I think maybe I'm just blindly optimistic that it's going to be great fun and dead easy. I'm just very excited," he said. | |
"It's a very exciting period of my life and for me and Sarra, hopefully a wonderful experience." |
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