This was the year that Laura Kenny almost quit cycling. Having suffered the trauma of miscarrying a baby in November 2021, the five-time Olympic gold medallist required an emergency operation for an ectopic pregnancy less than three months later. “Scared doesn’t even come close. I lost a fallopian tube that day,” she said. “I’ve always known I was tough, but sometimes life pushes you to an unbearable limit.”
In an Instagram post in which she revealed the news