Kenny, who has already garnered two Olympic gold medals and a silver in that quiet way of his, would appear to stand every chance of adding to that as the competition heads into the match-racing stage.
Meanwhile, the folly of the decision by the world governing body, the UCI, to change the format of the sprint was exposed in awful technicolour this morning.
To the disgust of many within the sport, the UCI and the International Olympic Committee have put in place a one rider per country rule, which has diluted this competition dramatically.
Five of the fastest 10 qualifiers from the World Championships in Melbourne in April are not allowed to compete, even though they are all here as members of the team sprint squads.
As a result of that, the competition was reduced to just 17 riders, yet the organisers declined to do the obvious thing and seed the top 16 riders from the flying 200m into the round of 16.
Instead they gave Kenny a bye and then required the others to ride off to fill the next eight places. One of those, Zafeiros Volikakis, assumed he had been eliminated and was back in the village when his race was called, which meant Bauge was also given a bye.
With nine riders now decided for the round of 16, an extra repechage round has been introduced to find another three riders to bring the total to 12 riders to compete in six races.
Then the six losers from that round will enter another repechage stage to determine the final two riders to join the six winners in the last eight.
Heaven knows what the crowd, which has paid good money to attend, made of this completely baffling turn of events, none of which was communicated to them.
The UCI will argue that it gives exposure to riders from the lesser nations, and a spectacle for TV audiences in those countries to watch, but in reality what we saw was a stack of middling sprinters taking centre stage at the Olympics while frustrated riders who could have beaten them with their eyes closed looked on from the stands.
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