Noelle Lenihan ready to let it fly in Rio

All seven of Elizabeth and Jim Lenihan’s children have been immersed in sport growing up in Deliga, near Milford.

If they weren’t running — their eldest Siobhan was good enough to go to Arkansas Tech on a middle-distance scholarship — they were playing camogie or hurling with Milford and throwing with North Cork AC.

So, in many ways it is not surprising that one of their children is a world record holder who’ll be competing at the pinnacle of her sport on September 17.