"Just typical Jason"

Laura Kenny was surprised at husband Jason's victory in the men's keirin final at the Tokyo Olympics but said it was just typical'' of him to pull off the win and become the most decorated British Olympian in history.

Jason had complained of being out of form during the men's sprint earlier this week but on Sunday rode away from the field to win by a yawning gap of 0.763 seconds from Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia.

The triumph gave him a seventh Olympic gold medal, moving him one ahead of former British cycling great Chris Hoy.

Laura, Great Britain's most successful female athlete with five golds, said even she was not sure Jason could win gold at four consecutive Games.

The amount of people who came up to me afterwards and were like 'I'd have counted him out of this' - and to be honest, so had I!'' she said after the race

I was speaking to him last night and he was like, 'I just want to go home'. Then obviously he won - just typical Jason, that.''

The global body for the sport, Union Cycliste Internationale, tweeted the achievement was incredible'' after the triumph.

Jason, who's from Farnworth, Bolton, now has nine Olympic medals, described the achievement as really special''.

Seven gold medals is really special, when you look back on the ones you have already got it seems pretty easy,'' he said.

Then when you try and get more, you remember how hard it is.''

He could have been forgiven for taking his eye off the ball in the event, with his warm-ups for the quarter-finals earlier in the day interrupted when Laura crashed heavily in the opening scratch race of the women's omnium.

She recovered to win the following run-off in the multi-race event, but eventually finished outside the podium places in sixth