Sir Chris Hoy almost turned knighthood down after thinking it was a wind-up
dailyrecord.co.uk2008 Beijing Olympics.However, he revealed he didn’t get the letter telling him about the honour because it was sent to his old address in Edinburgh.Hoy, 44, said he was driving when the phone rang, adding: “I put it on hands-free and they said, ‘This is so and so from Buckingham Palace’ and I thought, ‘It’s one of my mates, this a wind-up.’“I said, ‘Oh yeah’ and they said, ‘I wondered if you got your letter?’ I said, ‘No, I didn’t get a letter’ and he said, ‘Oh well, we are writing to offer you a knighthood’."I was about to go ‘Yeah right, sling your hook pal.’ Then my wife Sarra who was sitting next to me said, ‘It’s real.’“I then went, ‘Oh, I would love to, sorry I didn’t reply.’ So I almost told him to take a running jump.”Hoy – who won.
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