Sonia cleared to represent Australia in Commonwealth Games

SONIA O’SULLIVAN’S career took a new turn yesterday when she was cleared to run for Australia in this year’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, her adopted hometown.

She will go through the formalities of qualification at the trials today in what will be her first track race since the BUPA Cork City Sports last summer.

According to The Age newspaper the 36-year-old Cobh athlete has been given permission to represent Australia just one week after she had been granted Australian citizenship.