The engaged British pair of track cyclists pushed their joint gold medal count in Rio de Janeiro to five on Tuesday when Trott fought her way through the omnium, and Kenny raced to victory in the keirin event.
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Kenny added to his earlier men’s sprint and team pursuit golds in Rio, having won twice at London 2012 and once at Beijing four years before that – also getting silver in China.
Pringle, a cross between an English springer spaniel and a poodle, is named after the Lee Valley Velodrome, formerly known as the Olympic Velodrome, where Kenny and Trott won two gold medals.
Trott’s mother Glenda said: “They’ve got a wedding to plan”.
Germany’s Olympic sprint gold medal victor Kristina Vogel has complained that her dominant British rivals have an unfair advantage, though she is not sure what it is.
“I turned up to one house and he just looked at me and said “Emma, it’s on the TV”.
Kenny’s win didn’t come without tension and drama though, as he had to go through the ordeal of a threat of a disqualification alongside eventual bronze medallist Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia. Trott won the gold medal in the women’s omnium just hours prior.
The couple have 10 Olympic gold medals, but are forbidden by their parents from keeping them in their own home. “There’s no secret, no magic”, Team GB sprint coach Justin Grace told L’Equipe (link in French).
If Laura Trott and Jason Kenny’s household was a country they would be 12th on the medal table in Rio – ahead of Spain, Canada, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea and even hosts Brazil.
“At my first Olympics in Beijing, I knew we had something special to build on”, said the Englishman, who is aged just 28 and could well surpass Hoy’s six-gold tally at future Games. “It actually makes me more stressed watching Jason because I’m not in control of it”.
Kenny’s calm personality reassured Trott, but she was nervous nonetheless as the race was started three times before his dominant win.
America’s two-time omnium world champion Sarah Hammer took silver for the second time in a row with Jolien d’Hoore of Belgium rounding off the podium.
Matthijs Büchli of the Netherlands took home the silver medal.
Even then it prompted some observers to suggest British Cycling – famed for attention to detail – had thought of everything, even a breeding programme.
On Tuesday, Edmondson won the 500m time trial and was second in the flying lap. Let’s just take a moment to say “awwwwww” at how they must be feeling right about now. A two-time world champion, Aleksanyan entered the Olympics as the top-ranked wrestler in his weight class.
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“I don’t know really, I turned up here in a amusing mood earlier on because I was happy – not that I’m always unhappy”, Kenny told the BBC.
