Having spent a lot of time chatting to many top track and field athletes, James Sullivan has taken a trip into the world of swim-bike-run and has been having a chin-wag with one of Australia’s top female triathletes, Felicity Sheedy-Ryan. Felicity Sheedy-Ryan is an elite triathlete from Perth, Australia. She has achieved victory on the ITU [...]
James Sullivan has been chatting with another of Ireland’s up-and-coming talents, middle distance runner Paul Robinson. Paul Robinson is an elite middle distance runner from County Kildare, Ireland. He finished 9th in the 1500m at the 2011 World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada. He currently holds the Irish junior record for the mile with a clocking [...]
The next athlete in The Running Review hotseat is sprinter Niamh Whelan, who talks to James Sullivan about her background in the sport and her plans for 2012. Niamh Whelan is an elite sprinter from County Waterford, Ireland. She finished 11th in the 200m at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, missing out on a place in [...]
Having previously chatted to Claire Bergin, James Sullivan is back with an interview with another of the Irish women’s 4x400m relay quartet, Marian Heffernan. Marian Heffernan is an elite sprinter from County Cork, Ireland. She is currently a member of the Irish 4x400m relay team which finished 12th at the recent World Athletics Championships in [...]
James Sullivan is back with another interview with one of Ireland’s Olympic hopefuls, 800m runner David Campbell. David Campbell is an elite middle distance runner from County Kildare, Ireland, who specialises in the 800 metres. He represented Ireland at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg and the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. His PB of 1:45.59, [...]
James Sullivan has been having a chat with Maeve Kyle, OBE, Ireland’s first ever female Olympian, about her experiences in Melbourne, Rome and Tokyo, about life in Ireland during the 1950s and about the upcoming London Olympics. Maeve Kyle is a former athlete from County Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1956 she became the first woman to [...]
Mark English is an elite middle distance runner from County Donegal, Ireland, who specialises in the 800 metres. In 2010 he claimed the gold medal over 1000 metres at the European Youth Olympic Trials in Moscow. In 2011 he set Irish junior records over 800m indoors (1:48.63) and outdoors (1:47.09), the latter eclipsing the 15 [...]
After previously talking to his sister Jessie, James Sullivan has been having a chat with Irish 400 metre hurdler Thomas Barr. Thomas Barr is an elite athlete from County Waterford, Ireland, who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. At the 2011 Irish Track and Field Championships he took the title over the long hurdles in [...]
A little later than planned, but James Sullivan is back with the final installment of his A-Z of the 2011 athletics year. PART 3 (Q-Z) Q – Qualification standards With the London Olympics only around the corner, the dreaded B-Standard debate is well and truly under way. The Olympic Council of Ireland has firmly stated [...]
James Sullivan is back with part 2 of his A-Z of the 2011 athletics year. PART 2 (I-P) I – Incompetence Daegu 2011 marked the first occasion in the history of the World Championships where the BBC didn’t broadcast the event. Having covered every championship since the inaugural competition in 1983, the national broadcaster [...]
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- James has been talking to Australian triathlete Felicity Sheedy-Ryan http://t.co/YP6N79dY 2012/05/03
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