The 75-year-old Swede has been given at best a year to live by doctors who told him he has pancreatic cancer after collapsing and fainting following a 5km run the day before.
Sven has been battling the illness secretly for a year having only told close family and friends, but he made the shock announcement in a Swedish radio station interview last week.
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