Success costly for Irish ice queen Clara

Success at the World Ice Skating Championship this week in France has come at a hefty price for Ireland’s most successful figure skater.

Success costly for Irish ice queen Clara

Dublin’s Clara Peters advanced from the free skating preliminary round at Nice’s Palais des Expositions to secure a spot alongside the planet’s top 30 competitors this afternoon. But progression is set to leave a sizeable dent in her finances.

“I receive no funding whatsoever. Because I have made it into the top 30 in the worlds, my coach and I have had to book extra accommodation and have had to change our airline tickets. So making the next stage of the worlds could cost us a couple of thousand euro.

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