Loughnane in with medal chance

OLIVE LOUGHNANE will be among the elite medal prospects when she lines up at the Brandenburg Gate for the start of the women’s 20k road race at the world championships tomorrow.

That the Cork-based Loughrea woman should find herself in this position was inevitable following her performance at the Olympic Games in Beijing where she finished seventh.

That placing is a statistic that does not reflect the true merit of her performance. To do that one has to turn to the overall statistics of what was a sensational race.