{"id":72489,"date":"2025-05-04T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/72489\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:27:12","slug":"sir-chris-hoy-forced-to-leave-hotel-room-at-4am-after-late-night-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/72489\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Chris Hoy forced to leave hotel room at 4am after late-night blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team GB icon Sir Chris Hoy was forced to change hotel room at 4am after a fellow guest staying above him left their bath running.<\/p>\n<p>22:49, 03 May 2025Updated 22:50, 03 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-120522-PM.png\" alt=\"Sir Chris Hoy.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Sir Chris Hoy.(Image: Visionhaus\/Getty Images.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/sir-chris-hoy\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Chris Hoy<\/a> had travelled to Germany for the Ring Drivers&#8217; Convention, with the Team GB legend staying over at a hotel, though he endured a difficult night of sleep<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/team-gb\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Team GB<\/a> icon Sir Chris was forced to change <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/scotland-now\/scotlands-best-hotels-named-2025-35132597\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel room<\/a> at 4am after a fellow guest staying above him left their bath running. Hoy, who won six <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/the-olympic-games\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic <\/a>gold medals in his cycling career, had travelled to Germany for the Ring Drivers&#8217; Convention in Nurburg, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/other-sports\/cycling\/chris-hoy-team-gb-hotel-35164945\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"reports the MirrorLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">reports the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Scottish legend previously took up motor-racing after retiring from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/cycling\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">cycling<\/a> in 2013. The Ring Drivers&#8217; Convention was held at the world-famous N\u00fcrburgring on Friday, with Hoy jumping into a Porsche 992 GT3 RS alongside former <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/top-gear\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Top Gear <\/a>host Chris Harris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2_JS198041129.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\nSir Chris Hoy and his wife Lady Sarra with their son Callum and daughter Chloe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The former Olympian shared a selfie of the pair on social media, captioning it: &#8220;First time on the @nuerburgring, what a flippin\u2019 place. Thought I\u2019d jump in for a passenger lap with this guy in his 992 GT3 RS to learn the lines. Says he knows what he\u2019s doing\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Hoy had to stay over in Germany on Friday night at a hotel. But he was in for a rude awakening at 4am on Saturday morning when he was forced to pack up and move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 49-year-old revealed his ordeal on Instagram, posting a video showing water pouring from the light fixture and pooling on the bathroom floor. The water was from the room above Hoy, with that guest having left their bath running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A frustrated Hoy wrote: &#8220;Big shoutout to the person who left their bath running upstairs and caused me to have to move rooms at 4am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This latest ordeal comes after Hoy announced in February last year that he was battling <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/prostate-cancer\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">prostate cancer<\/a>. A tumour was found in his shoulder, and a scan later found the primary cancer in his prostate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It has since metastasised to his bones &#8211; including his pelvis, ribs and spine. The cancer is terminal, with the Olympic hero being given two to four years to live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Hoy issued an update on his treatment last month, admitting that the diagnosis had &#8216;hit him hard&#8217;. 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