NEVER before has Warrington been able to celebrate as many Olympians in one year.
So our famous five are set to become record breakers between Saturday and Monday as they each take their first steps and strokes into London 2012 action.
Rowers Richard Egington and Olivia Whitlam will be appearing in their second Olympics, while handball and water polo players Holly Lam-Moores and Hazel Musgrove will be making their debuts.
They will all be representing Team GB in the first home Olympics since 1948, while canoe slalomist Johny Akinyemi will also be sampling his first taste of the games but will be competing for Nigeria.
The most Warrington representatives in any one Olympics previously was two.
Akinyemi, Lam-Moores and Musgrove will be making history as the town’s first representatives in their particular sports.
In Beijing four years ago, Egington became the first Warrington-born Olympian while Whitlam became the town’s first Olympic rower when she took to the lake ahead of her fellow Warringtonian.
The town’s Olympian honours board is therefore due to rise to 12 this time round, with swimmer Helen Slatter, athletes Suzanne Rigg, Michelle Scutt (nee Probert) and Chris Vose, boxing’s Robin Reid and Ray Gilbody and shooting’s Mike Babb on the list alongside 2008 due Egington and Whitlam.
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