First lady of the track Dame Laura Kenny has revealed she almost quit cycling after a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy left her at “breaking point.”
Kenny, Britain's most successful Olympic athlete of all time, goes for gold in this week's Commonwealth Games after the love of her husband and fellow cycling legend, Jason, nursed her through the winter from hell. The couple had not expected her to compete at Birmingham 2022, but after her miscarriage last November Kenny needed emergency surgery to remove a fallopian tube two months later after suffering an ectopic pregnancy.
Remarkably, the five-times Olympic gold medallist is now planning to add to her solitary Commonwealth Games title (at Glasgow in 2014) in the team pursuit, scratch and points races at 'Pringle' velodrome which hosted the London 2012 track competition. Kenny, 30, said: “It was one thing after another, it felt like nothing was going our way at all – you couldn't make it up, and in January I was at breaking point.
