Fears for Olympic Victoria’s marriage...
IS OLYMPIC cyclist Victoria Pendleton still pedalling in the same direction as her husband, Scott Gardner?
The couple have not been seen in public together since last summer and double- gold medallist Victoria, 37, cut a lonely figure at Cheltenham Festival last week.
Yesterday, her spokesman declined to comment on rumours her marriage had hit the rocks.
But she admitted last December: ‘I’m probably having a midlife crisis, for sure.’
Her remarks came as she confessed that Gardner, 42, the former Team GB sports scientist, would prefer her not to embark on her planned ascent of Mount Everest in May with handsome adventurer Ben Fogle, 44.
‘I think, in an ideal world, he’d
like to be able to stop me, but he knows that won’t make me happy,’ said Victoria, who shares a converted Oxfordshire barn with Scott.
If there is trouble in their marriage, it could be the curse of Hello! striking. The couple (left) sold the rights to their wedding to the glossy magazine in 2013.
When her relationship with the Australian began, Victoria said it turned her into an ‘outcast’ among her cycling team mates because he was their coach at the time.
And in 2015, she said she would not rule out freezing her eggs to have children later in life. ‘Scott and I are both so ambitious with what we want to do with our lives at the moment that kids aren’t in the picture now.’