Event: Women’s badminton.

Who is she? Magee is a 28-year-old who is one of Ireland’s most experienced Olympians.

Where is she from? The town of Raphoe in county Donegal.

Olympic CV: This will be her third Olympic appearance after losing in the second round in Beijing in 2008 while exiting one round later at London 2012.

Road to Rio: It’s been a long and sometimes arduous road for the Donegal woman who had to play in no fewer than 22 tournaments to qualify for Rio and, even entering the final event, she was not guaranteed a place.

A lot of Magee’s focus in the early stages went on qualifying in the doubles with her brother Sam and it was only after Christmas that she was able to fully focus on making the singles.

When does she start? Magee’s first match will take place on Thursday 11 August.

Where can I follow her? She’s quite active on Twitter and you can follow her at @chloenmagee.

What he says? “What was in my head was ‘imagine telling my Dad that I hadn’t qualified for the Olympics.’ That was my initial thing chatting to that psychologist. I couldn’t imagine that conversation. I wouldn’t care about anybody else. That would’ve been tough.” (Irish Examiner, July 2016)

Medal chances? The draw is so important in badminton that it’s really difficult to assess Magee’s chances before we see how it pans out. However, she’ll be hoping to do better than her previous Games experiences.

A two out of five on The42‘s scientifically-developed, patented Jerry Kiernan scale…

And here’s something you probably didn’t know: Magee was at the centre of something of a media storm last time around when the late Bill O’Herlihy described badminton as ‘a mainly protestant sport’ after her victory over Egyptian Hadia Hosny in London.

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