DAME SOPHIE & ELLESSE OUR KIWI GOLDEN GIRLS
It was a moving moment when Dame Sophie Pascoe claimed her fifth Commonwealth Games gold medal at Birmingham.
Wiping away tears after the race, the Christchurch athlete, 29 – who had only recently recovered from COVID and lost her grandmother – sobbed, “After the circumstances and adversity coming into this Games, to see a number one beside my name… Those last 10m really hurt, but I know that my nana was with me.”
After 14 years at the
