Winning Women
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This August, Team Ireland is sending 65 athletes to the Olympic games, 27 of whom are women. Among the athletes covered in the series, there will be Sycerika Mcmahon the 17 year old swimmer and multi gold winning medallist as well as Irelands first ever Olympic qualifier in Modern Pentathlon, Natalya Coyle. Raphoe, Donegals international badminton star; Chloe Magee. Mexican American Irish pole vaulter Tori Pena and long distance marathon runners, Ava Hutchinson and Linda Byrne Winning Women features legendary commentator Jimmy Magee, Olympic silver medalist Sonia O Sullivan and Irish Times athletics correspondent Ian O Riordan, among others. The 8 part series is an Athena Media production, funded through BAI Sound Vision scheme and Broadcast on Newstalk. Producer is Helen Shaw and reporter Lisa Essuman. Episode 8. With the Olympic Games just about to start two Cork based Olympians, Sanita Puspure and Olive Loughnane, are the focus in today' feature in our series Winning Women. Latvian born Sanita Puspure is Irelands first woman rower at the Games since 1980. But while its Sanitas first Olympic Games for champion race walker Olive Loughnane London is her fourth and, she says, final Games.
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