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Kenny pulls out of world championships

LONDON (Agencies): British rider Laura Kenny has withdrawn from the track cycling world championships in Poland because of illness, her team said on Friday. The seven-time world champion missed out on gold in Thursday’s team pursuit, saying she had “let the girls down” as they were beaten by arch-rivals Australia.

She had been scheduled to ride in the multi-event omnium, in which she won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, but Katie Archibald will now take her place. “I am absolutely gutted to announce that I won’t be riding in the omnium at the world championships today,” Kenny, who is married to British sprinter Jason Kenny and gave birth to a son in 2017, said in a statement. “I haven’t been feeling right all week for reasons we’re not sure of, but we do know my performances in the team pursuit over the last two days have been well off where I have been in training over the last two weeks.”

The Frontier Post

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