Ireland's Olive Loughnane to receive World gold tonight - seven years after the race

"There will be a national anthem, there will be flags and there will lots of Irish people here so it’ll be great.”

Wed, 06 Jul, 2016 - 18:02

Ireland's Olive Loughnane will finally be crowned 2009 World Champion tonight, seven years after the race took place.

Olive Loughnane with her Silver medal from the 2009 Worlds! Today she will have it retrospectively upgraded to Gold! pic.twitter.com/JtL6WzUU2W
— sportsfile (@sportsfile) July 6, 2016

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