Laura Trott embracing her fiancé, Jason Kenny, after they both won cycling titles in Rio last night. She now has four golds and he has six Bryn Lennon/Getty ImagesThey are Britain’s golden Olympic couple, both making history in Rio, but in some respects Laura Trott and Jason Kenny could not be more different. Kenny is one of the all-time greats of British sport — last night, he added a sixth gold medal in the keirin, bringing him level with Sir Chris Hoy’s record medal tally — but by his own admission he is “a bit of a miserable sod”. Hours earlier, Trott became the first British woman to win four Olympic gold medals on what was being dubbed Terrific Tuesday. “I can’t believe it, I don’t want to…

Source: The Times August 16, 2016 23:08 UTC