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Dame Laura Kenny storms to Commonwealth Games gold in 10km scratch race

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Dame Laura Kenny wins her second Commonwealth Games gold medal in the women's 10km scratch race after a surging late attack.
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Dame Laura Kenny added a second Commonwealth Games gold medal to her collection with victory in the women's 10km scratch race on Monday.

The five-time Olympic champion executed a sensational attack to surge past Scotland's Neah Evans, but New Zealand's Michaela Drummond followed closely.

However, in the same arena where she won her London 2012 Olympic double, Kenny fended off Drummond's challenge to take the title, as Canada's Maggie Coles-Lyster finished third.

"I can't believe it honestly I said to Jase [Jason Kenny] 'I think this is going to be my last race'," an emotional Kenny told BBC Sport after the race.

"Sunday left a pretty bad taste to be honest. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. You see Matt Walls crash like that and it really makes you think 'what am I doing'. I have been so lucky my whole career I have had one broken shoulder and one broken arm.

"You see something like that...I was having a serious confidence crisis. I just didn't want to be on the track and when that happens I race badly and I don't get a result. And that's what happened. Whereas today I was so fired up. I kept saying to myself in the toilet, 'I can do this'.

"Some man on the start line said 'you've got this Laura' and I felt like turning round to him and saying 'yes I have'. I was like a completely different bike rider."

Kenny's gold represented Team England's first track cycling title of the 2022 Commonwealths, and there was also a silver for Sophie Capewell in the keirin. body check tags ::

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