By Megan Armitage, Sportsbeat
Lady Laura Kenny exchanges her bike for racing coaches after admitting that she is waiting for athletics at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth games.
The 33 -year -old has won his latest medal in the Vélodrome for Team England in Birmingham 2022, but will take up a new challenge as a newly appointed president of the Commonwealth Games in England at next summer games.
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It is a role which means that it must keep an eye on a multitude of new sports.
And despite always a weakness for the track bike, Kenny revealed that his eldest son Albie influenced his interest this year, his own ambitions of athletics pivoting the athletics track.
“I obviously always watched athletics, but last year, when we watched the Olympic Games, my elder Albie, was so interested in the race,” she said.
“So. I think that’s what I am most excited to see, more for its side.
“I am excited to see him look again at a little live sport, because he does not look much.
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“This is the way I was inspired as a child, so I hope it could inspire him. He continues to ask an athletics club anyway.”
The Glasgow 2026 countdown is officially on, with today one year to do until Kenny’s games and excitement around the action on the athletics track are only strengthened by the reintroduction of a certain event.
England has a rich intermediate race story, extending from Seb Coe and Steve Ovett to Kelly Holmes and more recently Keely Hodgkinson.
But its roots go back to the race of less than four minutes from Roger Bannister and his glorious “miracle” victory over John Landy in Australia in the 1954 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver.
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And with the return to the Glasgow program, Kenny thinks that his reintroduction to games is just the event necessary to inspire the next generation of English distance runners.
“I think everything that brings our history under the spotlight and back in the news is great,” she said.
“When you look back through the English race of the short distance, they are the people that everyone knows.
“I mean, Kelly Holmes, for me, is an absolute idol, and each time she opens her mouth, I am sitting there amazed.
“I was so lucky because she is one of my companies now and I’m still sitting there and I think she is so fascinating.
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“Whenever we can bring these people back into the news, I think that’s how we move the next generation of people.”
Kenny herself began to run since her retirement in 2024, using it as the ideal means to relax away from a busy cleaning.
After the birth of her daughter Lily in May this year, the mother of three noted that the race is the best way for her to exercise without having left for a long time.
She even admitted that the competition was preparing between her and seven times her Olympic medalist husband, Jason, the two who run the London marathon in 2026.
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“It is peace and tranquility, and the race is obvious for that,” she said.
“Because I obviously feed Lily, and she is a bit of a cluster feeder during the day, I don’t really get time where it’s just me, so I can’t take a three -hour bike ride.
“The race is easy, because you don’t have to run so long to get something out of it, especially because, obviously, I am not a natural runner.
“I’m going to go out for 20 or 30 minutes and I think I get the fitness so much, but it’s also my time to have a little time.”
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In her new role as president, Kenny is now ready to restore to athletes in the same way as she benefited from it at the start of her career.
And with one year to travel to Glasgow 2026, the excitation is preparing.
“I’m so excited,” she said. “The reason why I played the role in the first place, it was because I felt like I wanted to give back to athletes and because Team England played a huge role in my career.
“So the song that fascinates me the most is talking to athletes and getting involved and that will only reproduce from now on.”
Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will take place from July 23 to August 2, 2026. Continue to the whole England team https://teailngland.org/news
