Sonia: I don’t feel cheated

SONIA O’SULLIVAN did not feel cheated out of an Olympic gold medal when French border police discovered drugs, thought to be performance enhancing, in a car belonging to Gabriela Szabo, two weeks ago.

In the interim, the Olympic 5,000m gold medallist has been exonerated but the cloud of suspicion will remain for some time at least.

It will be remembered how the diminutive Romanian snatched the gold medal from the Irish woman in a flying finish in Sydney but Sonia, who was in Cork yesterday to launch the BUPA Ireland Cork City Sports scheduled for The Mardyke on July 5, is happy with her silver and does not dwell on the past. In fact she is looking forward to next year's Olympic Games in Athens.