In The Wake Of Her Father

Sun Herald

Sunday April 20, 2008

MEAGEN NAY will carry more than the hopes of a nation when she competes at her first Olympics in Beijing. The 19-year-old will be inspired by a father she barely knew, Robert, an Olympian and a former heroin addict who died when she was four.

"I wish he could be here now to see me doing this, but I know he's watching me. He'd be proud of me," she said.

> Special report, pages 84, 85

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