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Two years of preparations end in an Olympic nightmare for Carlow athlete
Tuesday March 09 2010
WHAT SHOULD have been the sporting experience of a lifetime turned out to be a veritable nightmare for Carlow athlete Leona Byrne. For two years the former Youth Olympics competitor toiled and trained to help qualify Ireland for the women's two-person bobsleigh for the Winter Olympics, only to be forced to watch her colleagues race on television from the Olympic Village.
