by By Megan Armitage, Sportsbeat
Lady Laura Kenny exchanges her bike against Running coach after she has admitted that she is the most looking forward to athletics in the violent games in Glasgow 2026.
The 33-year-old won her last medal in the Velodrome for Team England in Birmingham 2022, but will be a new challenge at the games of the next summer as a newly appointed President of Commonwealth Games.
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It is a role that means that it has to keep an eye on a large number of brand new sports.
And although Kenny always had a weakness for the track cycling, he revealed that her eldest son Albie sparked her interest this year, with his own athletics ambitions turning her head to athletics track.
“I obviously always saw athletics, but last year when we looked at the Olympic Games, my oldest Albie was so interested in running,” she said.
“So. I think that’s what I have most excited about.
“I look forward to seeing a little live sport again because he doesn’t watch so much.
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“This is how I inspired myself as a child, so I hope that it could inspire him. He still asks for an athletics club.”
The countdown to Glasgow 2026 is officially switched on. Today marks a year today until the games and Kennys excitement about the campaign on the athletics route is only reinforced by reintroducing a certain event.
England has a rich history of the medium -sized route, which extends from Seb Coe and Steve Ovett to Kelly Holmes and Keely Hodgkinson in recent times.
But his roots go back to Roger Bannister’s record breaking sub-four-minute run and his glorious ‘Miracle Mile’ win over Australia’s John Landy in the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver from 1954.
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And with the mile again on the program in Glasgow, Kenny believes that his reintroduction to the games is exactly the event required to inspire the next generation of English medium -distance runners.
“I think everything that brings our story back into the spotlight and back into the news,” she said.
“If you look back through the English middle ground, it is the people everyone knows.
“I mean, Kelly Holmes is an absolute idol for me, and every time she opens her mouth, I was amazed there.
“I was so lucky because she is now a colleague of me and I still sit there and only think that she is so fascinating.
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“Every time we can bring these people back into the news, I think we will get the next generation of people move.”
Kenny himself has put into operation since retirement in 2024 and has been a perfect way to relax from a busy household.
After the birth of her daughter Lily in May this year, the mother of three children found that running is the best way for her to train something without being gone for a long time.
She even admitted that the competition between her and the seven -time Olympic medalist Jason brewed, with the two leading the London marathon in 2026.
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“It gets calm and the race, and running is an obvious,” she said.
“Because I obviously feed Lily and she is a bit like a cluster feeder during the day, I don’t get that long where it is, so I can’t go on a three-hour bike tour.
“Running is easy because you don’t have to run for so long to get something out of it, especially because I am obviously not a natural runner.
“I will go out for 20 or 30 minutes and I have the feeling that I get so much fitness out, 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 return the athlete as well as she benefited at the beginning of her career.
And another year until Glasgow 2026, the excitement is brewing.
“I’m so excited,” she said. “The reason why I played the role in the first place was that I felt that I had the athlete back something, and because Team England played a big role in my career.
“So, the piece that I am most excited about is actually talking to the athletes and getting involved, and that is only being raised from now on.”
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