Cycling-Just 'chipping away' says modest Kenny after record seventh gold

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With a glorious sense of under-statement Jason Kenny said he had just kept 'chipping away' over more than a decade of track cycling domination to become Britain's most successful Olympian.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Cycling - Track - Men's Keirin - Medal Ceremony - Izu Velodrome, Shizuoka, Japan - August 8, 2021. Gold medallist Jason Kenny of Britain poses with his medal. REUTERS/Matthew Childs

In the kerin final, despite starting from a bad lane, he rolled back the years with a blistering solo attack after three laps that caught his five rivals completely off guard."I didn't see myself as one of the favourites really," said Kenny, whose wife Laura was left with 'just' the five Olympic golds after a crash wrecked her chances of winning the omnium for the third Games in succession.

Kenny said he arrived in Tokyo thinking it would be his fourth and final Olympics, but after ending it on such a high he is not ruling out trying to enlarge his collection at Paris 2024. Kenny's nine Olympic medals in total is also a British record but he insists he has just been in the "right place at the right time" to benefit from British Cycling's lavish funds.

 

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