Trott, and her team mates Joanna Rowsell Shand, based in Manchester, Katie Archibald, and Elinor Barker, who has lived in Burnage, won gold medal in the women’s team pursuit.
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Kenny is seen much less in the limelight than some of the other successful cycling Olympians like Hoy or Sir Bradley Wiggins, and is hoping that life doesn’t have too much of a drastic change after his success at the Games. It was so hard to build myself up and come back again. It was about coming here and winning as many golds as we could. “We did a lot of work in the gym, and completely changed our program”.
After she had secured her gold medal ahead of British riders Becky James and Katy Marchant, she struck a more conciliatory tone.
Trott won by a commanding 24 points, while the gap between second-placed American Sarah Hammer and Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore in third was just seven points. The 28-year-old has now won six Olympic gold medals and a silver medal to match Chris Hoy’s Olympic record.
But those in the stadium held their breathe as the first attempt to complete the race saw Kenny and Malaysian Awang Azizulhasni under scrutiny for overlapping with the lead bike.
The tension-filled race twice had to be restarted after riders overtook the derny. “It felt like a dream”.
Australia’s Annette Edmondson, the 2015 world champion, had been in medal contention before the points race but was totally out of sorts and fell away meekly, finishing eighth overall. I was so exhausted I was floating through it.
After cruising round the 100-lap points race on Sunday, the final portion of the six-element omnium, she was congratulated by fiance Jason Kenny who surpassed her Rio haul by one, winning three golds to take his tally to a British record-equalling six.
Trott added: “To be able to repeat my success in London – I can’t explain what I am going through right now, I am so, so happy”. It was brilliant. It is pretty mental (matching Sir Chris Hoy). “I didn’t expect that at all, that it all came together”.
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The 24-year-old cyclist revealed that her newfound fame was rather unnerving during an interview with Good Morning Britain’s Nick Dixon in the Olympic Village today.
