Wrong turn leads ex-shop girl all the way to London

Six years ago Sanita Puspure was working as a shop assistant in Dublin.

Life was good in Ireland for the Latvian native and her husband Kaspers, who was employed as a technician with CR Technics in Dublin Airport. The couple were expecting their second child and all was rosy in their world.

Then one afternoon they took a wrong turn in the capital, and so began a journey that has brought the bubbly single sculls rower to the Olympic Games where she secured a spot in tomorrow’s quarter-final with a third-placed finish in Saturday’s heat.