{"id":15035,"date":"2024-03-19T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/laura-kenny-britains-most-successful-female-olympian-retires-from-cycling\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T02:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:57:02","slug":"laura-kenny-britains-most-successful-female-olympian-retires-from-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/laura-kenny-britains-most-successful-female-olympian-retires-from-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kenny: Britain’s most successful female Olympian retires from cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Earlier in March, British Cycling performance director Stephen Park said Kenny had only a “slim chance”<\/a> of competing in Paris.<\/p>\n

“I was getting these hesitant feelings,” said Kenny.<\/p>\n

“Going on to win another gold medal, as much as I would love to do that, it wasn’t giving me the energy I wanted any more, it just wasn’t. <\/p>\n

“I wasn’t thinking, ‘I really want to go on and win one’. I was thinking, ‘I really want to stay at home with the children’.”<\/p>\n

Kenny said the logistics of being on the road with Albie during her bid to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo – delayed to 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic – were very stressful. <\/p>\n

“Taking Albie around the world, travelling around the world with him and qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics was absolute carnage,” she told Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. <\/p>\n

“I think Jason and I had this way of painting this really beautiful, easy picture and the picture that everyone wants: you can have a baby, you can come back and you can go on to win a gold medal – and it looks easy, and I’m telling you, it was far from easy, it was absolute carnage.<\/p>\n

“And there were so many sacrifices along the way; there were so many flights I had to book here, there and everywhere. It was expensive. <\/p>\n

“It worked, yes. But it didn’t come without some serious heartbreak and sacrifices.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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