"Then, in the running group that I joined, someone said, 'You should sign off to an athletic club and start competing at state level', which I did.""I knew I was getting better, but I still never really thought about racing internationally," she said.
However, Athletics Ireland shifted the selection goalposts, leaving Diver with little option but to compete for Australia."As a citizen of Australia, I was eligible to represent either Ireland or Australia, but I presumed that athletes would represent the country of your birth," she said. "But then, my coach at the time said, 'You can represent Australia as well' and when selections came around, Athletics Australia gave me the opportunity, so I went to Beijing representing Australia, and I've represented them ever since."
It was in the aftermath of that race where Diver got frustrated about the focus on her age, writing in the AthletesVoice that, while other runners were referred to by their names, she was only referred to as "the 42-year-old".
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