Laura Kenny called Commonwealth gold her greatest ever after a year that left her ‘lost’. The 30-year-old lifted the roof off London’s velodrome with scratch race victory, a magical moment that she felt stacked up against five Olympic titles.
It did so because, as she explained in extraordinary post-race interviews, of a backdrop of a silent, existential struggle with cycling.
Such was the turmoil that her third and final race at these Games could have been her last. She said: “Honestly, I can’t even tell you how I felt last night.
I just lay there with my mum and I thought I just don’t know what to do, I don’t know whether I can even put myself through this. “It's just so hard.
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