Britain's most successful Olympic women's cyclist candidly spoke to the Manchester Evening News about a tough period in her life and a hopeful future
It's not everyday you meet a real life superhero, let alone have two in the same room at the same time.
After cycling from London to Paris for charity in time for Liverpool FC’s Champions League final with Real Madrid 12 month ago, the 57-year-old is taking it up a gear this summer. He and 24 other amateur riders are foreshadowing the Tour de France by cycling the 3,500km circuit a week early. “The fundraiser is about accelerating clinical trials and bringing this treatment more rapidly to children in Manchester - I know there’s treatment out there and I want to open the trials in Manchester.”
Dame Laura is astonished by the feat Rob is set to carry out from June into July. “What he is doing is absolutely amazing,” she says. Later in the afternoon, Ian held a Q&A session with Dame Laura and interviewed Rob as well as former England footballer Geoff Thomas MBE, new British Cycling CEO Jon Dutton and Lancashire cricket captain Keaton Jennings with many other esteemed sporting figures in attendance.
Back at that table with Dame Laura ahead of the presentation of the accolade - which she actually won in 2016 post Rio - the Olympian was delighted to be receiving the plaque. “I've always said the minute I didn't enjoy it, I'd stop because it is so much of your life, it is 24/7. It consumes you. Laura experienced that herself early in her career but is thankful of the direction the sector is headed. “As a woman in sport, now it's getting better and better,” she says.
She became the first British woman to win three golds at consecutive games in the process, going level with equestrian great Charlotte Dujardin for the most Olympic medals won by a UK sportswoman. A home Commonwealth Games were just around the corner with Birmingham the host but seeing track cycling take place at Lee Valley VeloPark in London. However, deep down, it was the last place she wanted to be.
“I was in the funny mindset of doing what I felt was right but not necessarily doing what was right for me. I just sort of stuck it out and was like 'it'll be fine'.” “After all the comments saying I was past it and shouldn't have been there, I obviously had to look through that and think 'nope today is a new day', forget what everyone else is saying and go and race.”
She says she was keen to use the platform she has earned to spread a simple message: “It's nothing to be ashamed of.” Dame Laura was away from home and so was unable to have the in-person conversations that are so needed during such a time. “It felt so lonely and I felt so isolated, literally the only thing I had was google.
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