Penny Coomes targets medal at 2018 Winter Olympics
By Dev Trehan
Last Updated: 07/02/17 5:15pm
Figure skater Penny Coomes will do all she can to land the Olympic medal she has always strived for.
The 27-year-old faces a race against time to seal a place at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with partner Nicholas Buckland after undergoing two knee operations in the last nine months.
Coomes and Buckland have won six international titles together as well as three British titles but Coomes admits she is desperate to land an Olympic medal.
"It's been my dream my whole life. I've always wanted to go to the Olympic Games and I've always wanted that medal," she told Tuesday's Sportswomen show on Sky Sports News HQ.
"It's funny going through life and achieving all these amazing things, and as amazing as they are for me, as a competitor it is not enough. That medal is all that I have been striving for."
Many Russian athletes were banned from competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics following allegations of state-sponsored doping and the International Association of Athletics Federations [IAAF] said on Monday they will take a similar stance for this summer's World Championships in London.
But Russian competitors are set to compete in next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea and Coomes says athletes from other nations must have faith in the decisions made by the authorities.
She added: "As a clean athlete I know myself that I am clean and for myself and other athletes we have to stay focused on ourselves and what we're doing and we just have to trust the IOC and the International Figure Skating Union to make the right choices."
