Water torture: why world champion Cremen craves the pain game

The Cork woman insists she loves the pressure that comes with elite rowing.

Olympic Rower Mags Cremen is pictured at the Sport Ireland Campus, at a celebration of SPAR and EUROSPAR’s partnership with the Olympic Federation of Ireland and Paralympics Ireland.

SOME sports have the hurt locker, that place where athletes have to go deep inside themselves to shut out the pain and push through.

For rowing, it's the pain cave. And Mags Cremen lives for it.