Q&A: Olive Loughnane

Q: First Olympic memory?

A. Getting up at 6am to watch the boxing at the Los Angeles Olympics

Q. First time you gave an autograph?

A. Norway 1997

Q. I’m afraid of?

A. Deep water

Q. The one thing nobody knows about me?

A. I was born and spent the first four years of my life in Cork , but still a Galway Girl!!!

Q. If I’d to Sky plus one show?

A. Off The Rails

Q. Complete this sentence: Qualifying for Beijing is ...

A. A reward for endless hours and miles of training every day over the last 10 years?

Q. Sunshine holiday or Inca Tail?

A. I did the Inca Trail on honeymoon so I guess a bit of sunshine with activity thrown in.

Q. Favourite website?

A. Anything Athletics-related

Q. I drive?

A. A lovely new Mondeo compliments of Cavanaghs of Charleville

Q. The tattoo you’d must like?

A. Don’t do tattoos

Q. What’s your ringtone?

A. The standard Nokia one... I’m not a gadgets girl!

Q. What’s your favourite tipple?

A. Red wine

Q. Who’s your most difficult opponent?

A. Weather, especially wet cold mornings at 6.30am

Q. When the Olympics are all over...

A. I’ll take a break for a month and re-asses my goals for next year.

Q. What sportsperson would you like to share an ice bath with?

A. Martin Corkery ex-Gaelic footballer and top class golfer!!

Q. If you were a character from history you’d be?

A. Tom Crean, he knows what battling the odds are about.

Q. If you were stranded on a desert island who’d be Man Friday to your Robinson Crusoe?

A. Martin of course but I’d think he’d insist on being Robinson Crusoe!!

Q. Who’d play you in a film?

A. Rene Zellwegger.