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In this no-holds-barred account, Olympic race walker Rob Heffernan describes his battles with injury, depression, and abject poverty on his way to the top. At the age of 14, Rob Heffernan took up race walking on a whim. Over the next 23 years, driven by a fiercely competitive nature and a dogged desire to be the best in the world, he strode his way to the pinnacle of the sport. In 2016, he became the first athlete ever to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games for a fifth time. With color photos.

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In this no-holds-barred account, Olympic race walker Rob Heffernan describes his battles with injury, depression, and abject poverty on his way to the top. At the age of 14, Rob Heffernan took up race walking on a whim. Over the next 23 years, driven by a fiercely competitive nature and a dogged desire to be the best in the world, he strode his way to the pinnacle of the sport. In 2016, he became the first athlete ever to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games for a fifth time. With color photos.
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Rob Heffernan, from Togher in Cork city, opted out of the life mapped out for him at a young age. Instead of following his father into a trade, he put everything into race walking, and made his way to the very top, winning an Olympic medal, a world title and many other awards along the way.