A BBC commentator has prompted a sexism row after saying Jason Kenny was looking at fiancée Laura Trott after their gold medal wins, thinking ‘What’s for tea?’
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With the women’s team pursuit and omnium events included at an Olympics for the first time, Trott won both events and set out in Rio to defend both her titles.
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“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. The medals gave their nation six golds and 11 overall during the track cycling program at the Olympic velodrome.
Kenny won gold alongside Hoy at the Beijing Games in the team sprint, before claiming silver in the individual sprint, having been beaten by his GB team-mate in the final.
Britain have already won the men’s and women’s team pursuit, men’s team sprint and men’s sprint at these Games. – An emotional Trott was stunned after her record-breaking exploits.
He added: “Around track centre, I think we get a lot of admiration for what we do”.
D’Hoore took home the bronze just seven points behind Hammer.
American cyclist Sarah Hammer couldn’t catch up to the leader in the final event of the cycling omnium Tuesday, but she did manage to jump to second place, taking silver.
Scott was the overwhelming favourite with bookmakers having failed to win just two regattas in this Olympic cycle, and Sir Ben’s successor made light work of that pressure to continue Great Britain’s 16-year golden Finn record in the Olympics, started by Percy at Sydney 2000.
His victory in the keirin was his most tense of the Rio Games.
Dyer said officials did not have a camera with a side-on view and the British footage was also used in the decision not to disqualify German rider Joachim Eilers after the second race was halted for the same infraction.
Following the backlash shortly at about 11pm, he tweeted: ‘Just to clarify, “what’s for tea?” is often I question asks me [sic]! Long lenses trained upon the VIP section, they shared a kiss.
A lengthy delay, during which Kenny rolled round the track, contemplating what he would say if he was disqualified, was followed by a second start which was also halted by the “trigger happy” officials.
The Englishman was cleared to line up in a restart, but a third start was needed after the derny was overtaken too soon once again before Kenny outpaced his rivals to take yet another gold at the Velodrome.
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“I don’t really listen to Chris, but he is right worryingly often”, Kenny said.
