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Dame Laura Kenny: The Springsteen fan who became one of cycling’s rock stars

Source: PA Archive

Dame Laura Kenny has always been able to light up any room she steps into, and never more than when she is in a velodrome.

Bright and bubbly, she became the face of British Cycling’s more than decade-long dominance on the track from the moment Kenny, then Trott, announced her talent to the wider world at London 2012.

The two Olympic gold medals she won barely 20 miles from her childhood home in , Hertfordshire, were the first

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