Dame Laura Kenny will return to cycling at next week’s World Championships in France

Dame Laura Kenny will make her return to cycling at next week’s World Championships in the clearest indication but that she will proceed to the next Olympics in Paris.

The 30-year-old mentioned she wanted time to think about her future in the game after profitable gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in August, then skipped the European Championships in Munich later that month.

But Kenny has been named in Great Britain’s squad for the worlds in France, suggesting she needs to try to add to her tally of 5 Olympic golds on the identical observe in 2024.

Dame Laura Kenny is about to return to cycling in next week’s World Championships in France

She will be joined in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines by her team-mate Katie Archibald, who missed the Commonwealths by way of harm after being hit by a automotive in May.

Archibald – who received Olympic gold with Kenny in the madison at Tokyo 2020 – additionally had to cope with the loss of life of her boyfriend Rab Wardell in August.

Olympic omnium champion Matt Walls just isn’t in the squad as he continues to recuperate from his horror crash at Birmingham 2022, when he was despatched flying into the group.

Great Britain boss Stephen Park mentioned: ‘We’re now at the beginning of Olympic qualification for observe and, with these World Championships hosted at the 2024 Paris Olympic Velodrome, this will be a really thrilling surroundings for the crew to see the place they might be competing in slightly below two years’ time.’

Kenny makes her return after profitable gold at the Commonwealth Games in August 

Katie Archibald (L) is about to be part of her team-mate in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines after an harm