Hendricken on track for a career change

GERALDINE HENDRICKEN may switch tracks over the coming months when she takes out a horse trainer’s permit but won’t be abandoning her athletics career despite the ban for a positive drugs test, which turned her career upside down last February.

The Carlow athlete took her career to a new level with a string of personal best performances last year and was hoping for more of the same when her dreams were shattered by the news that she had failed an out-of-competition drugs test.

Within days of that test she was tested again at the Indoor Championships of Ireland in Belfast and the results came back negative to reinforce her claims that the positive test was a result of something she had taken unknowingly in a nutritional supplement.