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. Two women athletes making history at London 2012 are Irish pentathlete Natalya Coyle and pole vaulter Tori Pena. Natalya is Irelands first ever competitor in the Olympic Pentathlon a five sport event while Tori Pena a Californian whose grandmother comes from Derry and who has dual Irish American citizenship is Irelands first ever woman pole vaulter at the Olympics. As part of our winning women series we caught up with Natalya and Tori in the run up to their first Olympic Games. Tori who trains in Arizona was back at Morton Stadium in Santry defending her national title.
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