An unprecedented history will be made at the RIO 2016 Olympic Games when Estonian trio, comprising of "3" Triplets Leila, Liina and Lily Luik cross the start line for the women's marathon event in RIO.


The blond, blue-eyed identical, sisters from the southern Estonian university town of Tartu, now 30 years old, only took up distance running professionally when they were 24.
Liina, who got the sisters to start running, said long-distance running appealed to them more than the highly technical nature of sprinting.

"We have been active since childhood, we love dancing, we love to be active and this pushed us to professional sports," Lily said.

After a couple of years, they realized they were good enough to take part in international competitions. They decided to try for the Olympics, adopting the slogan "Trio to Rio" to give shape to their hopes of all three competing in the Olympics.

"We saw ... after one year we had good results in Estonia and we thought we could achieve something good also outside of Estonia and to do some big competitions like European Championships and the Olympic games," Lily said.


The triplets are believed to be the very first set of identical triplets who would compete against each other at the Olympic level.
In competition, the sisters say they support each other emotionally and even in race tactics, such as taking it in turns to act as wind breakers.
The sisters who live separately back home in Estonia ,have to train apart sometimes. However, they regularly spend winters together at a high-altitude training camp in Kenya, and they obviously appear to enjoy each other's company, chatting away while training. They will all be training in the northern part of Italy from June in preparation for The Rio Olympics proper.

"It is boring to train alone," said Leila.

With the current form of Ethiopian superstar Tiki Gelana, who set the Olympic record of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds in London in 2012 and also the silver and bronze medal times, which were 2:23:12 and 2:23:29. The Luik sisters are not favored to end up on the podium at Rio 2016.

By contrast, Leila, the oldest of the triplets, has the fastest personal best at 2:37.12, set in Shanghai in 2013. She is followed by Liina, whose personal best is 2 minutes and 30 seconds slower and Lily, the youngest, who is a further 45 seconds back.

When asked about their goals and objectives for the RIO games, All three agreed in unison saying" We want to finish together, to set personal bests and finish with a smile. About the prospects of bringing home an Olympic medal, they responded with;

"It would be great ... it's like our dream, and we know that we have to live in reality. It is very hard to compete against the Kenyan runners. We are not at the same kind of level as they are now, but in two or three years we can do that."

According to "Harry Lemberg", the man who coached the Luik sisters from the beginning,;"Even if the sisters are so identical in appearance, "If all three of them run together, I can easily tell them apart if all three of them run together."

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Mehn, i just dey imagine what it would be like to date any of the sisters! They might even take turns in HANDLING My CANDLE . See more pics and watch the training videos of the Estonian Triplets @http://www.gossipmirrors.com/2016/07/estonian-triplets-set-to-make-history.html

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