MATHS lecturer Abi Bown is a woman on a mission, seeking to end eight years of frustration, when she takes part in the Aikido World Championships this month.
The event only comes round every four years and last time Abi, 31, from Harrogate, where her mother, Jonet, is a probation service worker, was on a see-the-world tour and missed out.
That disappointment, on top of having to forego the championships eight years ago, when she was busy with her studies at Cambridge University, was compounded when two of her current team-mates came home with medals.
But now Abi, who works in Oldham, is British women's shodoka champion and as a member of a British contingent almost 30-strong, she will travel to Osaka in Japan in a few days time in a mood of confidence.
Jonet is correct, not Janet)
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