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Wed 07 Jul 2008Davis delivers on promise ahead of schedule
ALREADY THIS year on our list of monthly award winners we had two young sportswomen, Chloe Magee (badminton) and Siobhán Byrne (fencing), who will make their Olympic debuts in Beijing this summer. After the deliberations for our June award we've made it a hat-trick after 22-year-old Emma Davis became the first Irish athlete to qualify for the Olympic triathlon.
Davis, competing in her first World Championships, sealed her place in Beijing when she finished 15th in a field of 79 in Vancouver last month, her Olympic qualification confirmed by the International Triathlon Union later in June.
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