SONIA O’SULLIVAN HAS spoken for the first time since news broke overnight that Chinese athletes who beat her to gold medals at the 1993 World Championships were allegedly involved in a state-sponsored doping regime.
However, while the Cork athlete said she would be surprised “if two gold medals turn up” she welcomed the IAAF investigation into the admission from Wang Junxia and the rest of ‘Ma’s Army’ and would be satisfied if their probe resulted in the records being changed.
Speaking to The Anton Savage Show on Today FM, O’Sullivan said:
“Two medals in a package will not make any difference to me. Knowing that something you questioned was right… that will give me a lot of satisfaction, just to know that more than anything else.”
O’Sullivan said there were suspicions about Ma’s Army at the time with fellow athletes wondering “how they were so much better than everybody else in the world.”
She also told Today FM that she had moved on from it all and “never really let it get me down.”
