Britain's Olympian Jason Kenny Announces Retirement

Britain's track cyclist Jason Kenny has announced to get retired as he will be now serving as a coach of nation's cyclists. On Thursday, 33-year-old player has shared that he has started working as British Cycling’s men’s podium sprint coach and taking charge of many riders who were his teammates. Kenny bagged seventh Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in August last year, which is 13 years after his first medal in Beijing. 

The announcement by Kenny 

While making the announcement, Kenny said, “It wasn’t an easy decision. I genuinely wanted to carry on to Paris, but I creak quite a lot these days and I always knew I wanted to go into coaching off the back of it, and this opportunity came along. I am a little bit sad to be honest because all I’ve known is riding and competing, but I’m quite excited to get stuck into the job." 

He also said that this opportunity might not come here again. If the team got a good coach then they could be in the role for potentially 10 years, so he thought that he should go for it. He also said that if he hadn’t got the job he would have carried on (racing) in all likelihood. 

Kenny replaces Scott Pollock 

Kenny has replaced Scott Pollock to serve as an interim sport coach. On this Kenny said, “You can’t just go and play football with Albie or whatever. Now I think I’ll have less time off but I’ll be able to enjoy it more. It was really special."