Rio 2016: GB’s golden couple Kenny and Trott seek return to ‘normality’

After taking gold, Kenny embraced his fiancee and fellow gold medal victor Laura Trott, who was in tears in the centre of the track.

Usually the riders responsible are disqualified, but on Tuesday, after minutes of tense deliberation, the race was restarted with all six cyclists.

But she faded dramatically in the last event, the 25km points race, as Trott easily defended her Olympic title.

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. “People were turning up asking could they meet Jason Kenny, so they were a bit disappointed when I stepped out; they must have thought that I had really let myself go since the Olympics”.

Kenny eased into the second round of the men’s keirin, in which an overall victory would move him level with former sprint teammate Sir Chris Hoy on six gold medals.

Belgian Jolien D’Hoore also maintained her top-three standing through the points race to take third with 199, while Edmondson scored no points and finished on 168.

Australia came to Rio with realistic expectations of two or three gold on the track.

Trott, fiance of team mate Jason Kenny, who was going for a sixth Olympic gold later in the keirin, has now won every Olympic race she has entered, having claimed gold in the team pursuit and omnium at London 2012.

I can’t believe it – I did not expect that at all. Not bad for a woman who says that she still feels “like a little girl riding around on her bicycle”. “I was there in Beijing and knew it was special and as the years have gone by I appreciated how fantastic he was then and to do same it is awesome”. “Probably not”, she said. Trott became the first British woman to earn four gold medals and now is regarded as the most decorated female athlete in Britain.

“I love racing my bike. So I think before asking questions of us they may want to ask themselves why they keep getting it wrong”.

James is up against Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands, who beat her to gold in the kierin, while Marchant faces twice world champion Kristina Voegel of Germany.