'I was scared I wouldn’t make the start-line': How Sanita Puspure went from the verge of quitting to become a world champion

There have been so many twists and turns in Sanita Puspure’s life, from the moment she quit rowing in Latvia to when she ruled the world in Bulgaria last summer. She has a feeling that fate played its part but a woman who once feared change has also learned to embrace it.

Even in deepest, darkest December, the Rowing Ireland headquarters presents an eagle-eye view of Inniscarra Lake’s idyllic gloom, but Sanita Puspure isn’t having any of it: “It looks beautiful out there but it’s not.”