Dame Laura Kenny reveals miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy left her ‘broken’

Five-time Olympic gold medallist Dame Laura Kenny has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in November last year and then had one of her fallopian tubes removed in January due to an ectopic pregnancy.

Kenny was part of the British team which won silver in the women’s pursuit at the Nations Cup in Glasgow on Thursday, but revealed on Friday morning the personal difficulties she had overcome in order to compete.

Kenny, who has won six Olympic medals overall, said the events of the last six months would have left her “broken” without the support of her husband, nine-time Olympic medallist Jason Kenny, and their son, Albie.

“Since the Olympics we haven’t had much luck and it’s been the hardest few months I’ve ever had to go through,” she wrote on Instagram. “Jason and I fell pregnant immediately after the Games and we were absolutely chuffed to bits. But unfortunately in November when commentating at the track champions league I miscarried our baby at 9 weeks. I’ve never felt so lost and sad. It felt like a part of me had been torn away.

“I grabbed for my safety blanket, bike riding! I found myself back in my happy place training again. I then caught Covid in mid-January and found myself feeling really very unwell. I didn’t have typical covid symptoms and I just felt I needed to go to hospital. A day later I found myself in A&E being rushed to theatre because I was having an ectopic pregnancy. Scared doesn’t even come close. I lost a fallopian tube that day.”

Kenny, who turns 30 on Sunday, added: “I’ve always known I was tough, but sometimes life pushes you to an unbearable limit. If it wasn’t for Jason and Albie getting me through the day to day I’d have been broken. But here I am, with the support of my family, friends and