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Laura Kenny: Can elite sport damage women's fertility?

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Dame Laura, 32, gave her body to cycling for more than a decade. She is Britain's most successful female athlete. "Every training session I went in there to give 100%, every race I went in there to give 100%. "I took it to the limit - if I wasn't sick after a race I'd be like, 'Did I try hard enough?'" That absolute commitment was rewarded in the velodrome. Two golds at the London 2012 Olympics were followed by two more at Rio 2016. She married fellow cycling phenomenon Jason Kenny later that year and the couple welcomed their first baby, Albie, in 2017. She then secured another gold and silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021). But she miscarried in November 2021 and five months later had an ectopic pregnancy, in which the embryo implants outside of the womb, requiring emergency surgery. "Everything was a shock - I went from being so in control of my body to being so out of control," she told Radio 4's Today programme. She had never really worried about her own fertility befo

Laura Kenny: Can elite sport damage women's fertility? 31 December 2024 Share Save Add as preferred on Google James Gallagher , Health and science correspondent and Philippa Roxby , Health correspondent Getty Images Laura always wondered if her body was running on empty Dame Laura, 32, gave her body to cycling for more than a decade. She is Britain's most successful female athlete. "Every training session I went in there to give 100%, every race I went in there to give 100%. "I took it to the limit - if I wasn't sick after a race I'd be like, 'Did I try hard enough?'" That absolute commitment

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