They were the golden girls whose supreme ride became the forgotten triumph of Super Saturday at London 2012.
When Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Sir Mo Farah brought home the bullion for Team GB in 44 minutes of dizzying euphoria in the Olympic stadium, another holy trinity had struck gold in the velodrome hours earlier.
Dame Laura Kenny, Dani Rowe and Jo Rowsell-Shand's romp in the women's team pursuit – in world record time – almost became a footnote in one of Britain's greatest sporting days. But as Kenny returns to the 'Pringle' where she won the first of her five Olympic titles on Super Saturday, she has not forgotten a seminal moment in her glittering career.
