Britain's favourite Olympic couple cheer on Team GB for Paris
Olympic cyclist couple Dame Laura Kenny and her husband Sir Jason Kenny fly the flag on the London Eye to support the next generation of athletes.
Britain's most successful Olympic couple fly the flag again perched on the London Eye to cheer Team GB on and inspire the next generation of athletes.
Cyclists Dame Laura and Sir Jason Kenny’s sky-high feat above the capital came before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.
The couple, from Knutsford, Cheshire, have 12 Olympic cycling golds and three silver medals between them.
But, as it is the first Games without them since the London 2012, they wanted to show their support in a way the nation would never forget. Laura, 32, who retired earlier this year to concentrate on raising the couple’s two boys aged seven and one, wore red as she reached the top of the Eye.
On a capsule beside her Jason, 36, who retired from the velodrome in 2022 to become British Cycling’s men’s podium sprint coach, donned a blue top.
Laura initially hoped to compete in Paris this summer.
But in March she made the surprise announcement she was retiring, saying: “I have had an absolute blast but now is the time for me to hang that bike up.”
She gave birth to her first son, Albie, in 2017 after which she returned to cycling, hoping to juggle motherhood with competing in the elite sport.
After a miscarriage in 2021 and an ectopic pregnancy months later, Laura and Jason’s second son, Monty, was born last year.
But Laura found she preferred being at home with the children and eventually decided to quit cycling.
