Rio Olympics 2016: Jason Kenny and Laura Trott vow to continue breaking records and add to 10 gold medal collection
JASON KENNY and Laura Trott have vowed to make more history — so they can build a clock out of their gold medals.
Cycling’s golden couple have won ten Olympic titles and Trott joked: “We need two more. Then we could make a clock.”
The pair are serious about going to Tokyo 2020 and perhaps beyond — but only after a decent break to catch their breath and prepare for their wedding next year.
The cycling power couple also revealed they couldn't wait for one thing after their unrivalled success - food from a well known fast food chain.
Kenny’s triple success in Rio saw him draw level with Sir Chris Hoy as Britain’s most successful Olympian on six golds, while Trott’s double took her tally to four — a record for a British woman.
Trott, 24, said: “It’s hard to even think about it now. This is the first day after winning, it feels great now.
“You want to say: ‘I could go on forever. I’ll go on until British Cycling kick me off’.
“Then you get back to work and you realise how much hard work you put into those gold medals and how difficult it actually was, how many ups and downs you go through.
“So right now, I couldn’t tell you how many more. But I am only 24.”
Hoy won his last golds when he was 36, and Sir Bradley Wiggins has claimed his fifth in Rio at the same age.
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Kenny, 28, said: “Chris was 36. Brad’s getting on a bit as well.
“I think in cycling, if you look after yourself and you get lucky with crashes, and I haven’t got any injuries, you could potentially carry on well into your 30s.
“But it’s whether you want to deal with the lows. It’s a long four years.”
The smart money is on Britain’s golden couple carrying on at least to Tokyo.
But Kenny in particular feels in need of a proper rest after his heroics.
He added: “You do get the post-race blues. In the coming off weeks you realise all the nice shiny kit you’re not going to see for four years and that amazing form you had, you’re not going to see for a while.
“Maybe, I think in the past we’ve been guilty of not giving ourselves time. So maybe a longer break would be better.”
Midway through an audience with British sport’s hottest couple, the tell-tale paper bag had arrived and the most down-to-earth superheroes you could wish to meet make no apologies for succumbing to a junk-food fix.
Trott said: “Amazing. Oh my God. Yesterday we got back too late, so we couldn’t have it in the village. I’m so happy.”
Kenny, who on this occasion was restricting himself to a coffee, said: “The lads that had finished — there’s a massive queue at McDonald’s — got us some chicken nuggets.
“I don’t think chicken nuggets will do us any harm. Me and Callum Skinner both had them so there was obviously no real disadvantage or advantage gained, I don’t think.
“Apparently they also work for Usain Bolt.”
The fastest man on two wheels — who beat team-mate Skinner to sprint gold — and his fiancee are cagey about revealing their plans for next year’s wedding.
But the openness and honesty with which they address every other topic is as refreshing as the overwhelming success which is Team GB’s Olympics and the love story which is at the heart of it.
Kenny, 28, is a self-confessed “miserable sod” and insists he is comfortable with not having a single personal sponsorship deal.
He said: “I prefer it that way. Out there with all the cameras and snappers saying, ‘Do this, do that’ that’s a special kind of hell for me.”
But like fellow slow-burn hero and gold medallist Andy Murray, Trott feels the chants of “Jason, Jason” which accompanied his coronation as Britain’s joint most successful Olympian show that he is at last on the road to popular superstardom.
Trott said: “I hope so. What more can he do?
“He has equalled Sir Chris Hoy on six gold medals.
“Yesterday, even in the velodrome, it felt weird. It felt like there was a switch and all of a sudden it was ‘Jason, Jason, Jason’. And everyone wanted a piece of Jason.
“That was the first time I had really seen that. Even with London at the worlds and the Olympics last time around.
“This time it was just like a switch had been turned on and all of a sudden Jason was at the forefront of it.”
But after Trott, 24, had won her record-breaking fourth gold medal, she remained centre stage for the drama surrounding Kenny’s sixth.
Her worried, then tearstained, face was all over the big screens in the arena and TVs around the world as officials considered whether to disqualify her fiance from the keirin for overtaking the derny bike.
Trott said: “I was already a nervous wreck before that all kicked off.
“I get so nervous, especially in keirins, as well because they are dangerous.
“People just throw everything at it. The speeds are just incredible.
“That whole side of it freaks me out because I just don’t want him to get hurt.
“It’s always much harder watching somebody than it is to do it yourself. You are very much in control. After the first one, I was like, ‘Oh no’.
“Even the sprint coaches didn’t know what they were going to decide. I was a little bit worried.
“But once it got re-run, the second one didn’t even matter because I knew it wasn’t Jason that crossed the derny line first.
“After that, I was like, ‘OK, this is fine.’ ”
In contrast Kenny, cool as a cucumber, had simply circled the track no-handed during the two delays before rounding off British cycling’s campaign in fitting style.
He said: “I was probably the only person in the velodrome who wasn’t worried about it either way, because we have got that team of people that worry about it for us.”
The most pressing problem the couple have right now is what to do with the five gold medals they have added to their collection in an incredible week.
Trott said: “Our parents don’t let us look after them. They don’t trust us.
“We are not responsible enough to look after them. This might be the last couple of days that we actually have hold of them.”
Kenny added: “They just end up in a drawer, just out of the way. Maybe when we retire, we’ll frame then, put them on the wall. That might be quite nice.”
Justin Rose joked he might get a full-size mannequin in GB kit to display his gong from the golf.
Kenny said: “That would be pretty smart. He’s obviously got a bigger house than we have.”
Trott added: “We need two more. Then we could make a clock!”
And then the food arrived, a happy meal for the happy couple.
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