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Goldie Sayers: How it feels to win an Olympic medal ten years later

Where in the world would you like to be when you find out you've achieved your lifetime ambition?

For British javelin record holder Goldie Sayers it was far from how she'd imagined it after she last week discovered she'd earnt an Olympic bronze medal a decade after throwing the distance that should have won it.

The three-time Olympian will have her fourth place from Beijing 2008 upgraded after silver medallist Mariya Abakumova failed in her appeal against a doping ban.

Sayers said: "Where was I? I was where everyone should be when they win an Olympic medal, sitting on train at Taunton station eating a cheese sandwich.

"I found out through Twitter of all things and that shouldn't actually happen should it."

"I'm not a angry person but this week I've been a bit angry, to get it out, the emotion, to spend a decade of my career not knowing I was an Olympic medallist and you sort of feel a little bit like your life has run in parallel with what it could've been."

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