The most successful British track cyclist Laura Kenny has had a difficult time: After the Olympic Games last year, the 29-year-old suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy, as she announced on her Instagram account.
She became pregnant immediately after the Tokyo Olympics, but lost the baby in November when she was nine weeks pregnant.
“I’ve never felt so lost and sad. It felt like a part of me had been torn away,” Kenny continued on Instagram. The second setback came in January: The five-time Olympic champion had contracted Covid-19 and continued to feel bad after the illness – an ectopic pregnancy had been diagnosed. She had to have an operation.
“Fear isn’t nearly the right word. I lost a fallopian tube that day. I’ve always known I was tough, but sometimes life pushes you to an unbearable limit,” Kenny wrote.
The 29-year-old is married to teammate Jason Kenny, 34, and the couple have a son. Together with Katie Archibald, she won gold in Tokyo in the discipline Madison, a two-person driving. Laura Kenny is currently starting at the Nations Cup in Glasgow.