Sonia O’Sullivan wakes this morning in the Olympic village, safe in the knowledge that mission one has been accomplished.

The laboratory at the centre of the drug scandal which has rocked world athletics in the past week is being investigated for allegedly receiving millions of dollars in return for undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.

FEW Yale economics graduates follow the career path chosen by Dubliner Paul Coghlan when they successfully complete their studies. Certainly, he is in the fast lane, but it is not in the same way as his fellow students, who are aiming to make it big on Wall Street or in investment banking.