Lady Mary Peters won gold in the pentathlon in the ... She added that winning an Olympic gold changes an athlete’s life forever. “I just wonder, if I had been second, where I would be now.

In 1975, she established The Mary Peters Trust in Belfast, which provides funding for young athletes from disabled and able-bodied sports to help them develop careers in their chosen sports.

Britain's Daniel Rowden and Spanish athlete Ignacio Fontes are the latest Olympians to join the entries for the Belfast Irish ...