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 [...]
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 [...]
James Sullivan has been chatting with another of Ireland’s brightest prospects, 400 metre hurdler Jessie Barr, 5th at this year’s European Under-23 Championships. Jessie Barr is an elite athlete from County Waterford, Ireland, who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. At the 2011 European Under-23 Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, she finished in 5th place, recording a [...]
James Sullivan has been talking to Olympian Claire Bergin, currently a member of the Irish 4x400m team, about her experiences at the Vancouver Olympics and the recent Daegu World Athletics Championships, and her hopes for 2012. Claire Bergin is an elite sprinter and bobsledder from Dublin, Ireland. She was a member of the Irish bobsleigh team which [...]
James Sullivan has been having a chat with Ciaran O’Lionaird, one of Ireland’s best performers at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Ciaran O’Lionaird is an elite athlete from County Cork, Ireland, who specialises in the 1500 metres. After suffering a career threatening back injury in 2010 he has made a spectacular comeback this [...]
The 2011 World Athletics Championships took place recently in Daegu, South Korea, and James Sullivan was in the stadium for all 9 days of action. Here he gives his own personal take on the championships, with the most memorable moments, the Irish performances and some Korean oddities being among the areas discussed. After five days in Seoul, [...]
With the World Championships in Daegu just one month away, James Sullivan has been having a chin-wag with Ireland’s hurdling heroine Derval O’Rourke. Derval O’Rourke is an elite athlete from County Cork, Ireland, who competes in the women’s 100 metres hurdles. Her big breakthrough was in 2006 when she claimed the gold medal at the [...]
With the World Championships in Daegu just over one month away, James Sullivan has been taking a look at the men’s 110 metres hurdles, an event that promises an exciting showdown between the three fastest sprint hurdlers of all time. For the last few months much of the hype surrounding the upcoming World Athletics Championships in [...]
The US Championships took place recently, which are being used solely as the method for selecting the US team for the World Championships in Daegu in August. Luke Coleman runs a critical eye over the process. The USTAF National Outdoor Championships provided many great races last week as athletes battled to the line to claim [...]
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