‘The new face of Irish athletics’: Sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke goes for gold at Paris Olympics
                        
                                                    
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    Sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke will represent Ireland at the Paris Olympics in the 400m athletics events from August 5. The national athletics record holder has suffered a torrent of racial abuse online. But this has not discouraged her from aiming to become the first Irish woman athlete to secure a gold medal in athletics.                                 
                            
                        
                        
                                                    
                        
                        
    
    
        
            
            
        
        
    
                        
                            Sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke will represent Ireland at the Paris Olympics in the 400m athletics events from August 5. The national athletics record holder has suffered a torrent of racial abuse online. But this has not discouraged her from aiming to become the first Irish woman athlete to secure a gold medal in athletics.