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Five-time gold medal winner Laura Kenny is targeting her fourth Olympics next year after the birth of her second child this summer.<\/p>\n
Kenny, who has topped the podium in London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, has her eyes set on Paris as she is keen to prove motherhood is no reason to end her career after the arrival of their second son Monty in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cI obviously want to compete at the next Olympics. I know everyone thinks I\u2019m absolutely mad in saying that, but if I don\u2019t try, I\u2019ll never know,\u201d she told The Journey, the Team GB and Toyota docuseries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would hate to be sat here thinking, \u2018Well, I never even gave it a go to see if I could make it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope both children see their mum as someone who was determined to make both things work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will never have the burden of thinking, \u2018Oh, mum had me and then ended her career.\u2019 Because I didn\u2019t. I carried on; I made it work.<\/p>\n
I obviously want to compete at the next Olympics. I know everyone thinks I\u2019m absolutely mad in saying that, but if I don\u2019t try, I\u2019ll never know<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they look back and they can see that, and see that from the day they were born, they were part of the journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two different comebacks between Albie and Monty have been so different.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Albie I came back feeling like I had a point to prove, that you could be a mum and be an Olympic champion all at the same time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this time, I\u2019ve come back for me. I\u2019ve come back because I love riding my bike and I cannot imagine it not being part of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kenny gave birth to Albie in 2017 and after a miscarriage in 2021 and ectopic pregnancy early in 2022 she and husband Jason \u2013 a fellow Olympic champion cyclist \u2013 had a second son, Monty, in July this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving the ectopic was way worse than the miscarriage,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all happened so fast. I went to hospital thinking I had severe Covid and left just like \u2018What the hell?\u2019 having had a major operation when I didn\u2019t know I was pregnant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all terrifying really. I struggled massively mentally after everything that we went through, and I\u2019d say I probably wasn\u2019t truly happy until I fell pregnant with Monty.\u201d<\/p>\n