Ah say it ain’t so joe… Dixonesque
She has to run under 51:20 before the end of the month to qualify for the Euros.
Serious question marks to be raised over Coach Flo
Wouldn’t surprise me if her season was done. If they could get a spot for women’s or mixed relay that might be a saving grace for her. Something gone badly rotten in Texas.
Maybe all is not lost
Rhasidat Adeleke to return to 200m as quest for European qualification continues
Rhasidat Adeleke to return to 200m as quest for European qualification continues
Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke the 27 year old World Record of Noah Ngeny in Monaco last night in the rarely run 1,000 metres.
Rhasidat is a victim of expectations unfairly placed upon her
I thought it strange how quickly certain agencies of the state were to platform her in the absence of any globally recognised achievements over her fellow Irish even female athletes
I know she did well at u20 in Europe (2xGold) but in later years her trajectory had slipped - it was as a team member that she won gold in the Euros
RTE , DAA (those embarrassing photos in arrivals plastered on the wall and you overhear visitors saying WHO?) sports journalists etc own the pressure that was heaped on Rhasidat.
She’s unfortunate that she also appears to have been used to sell migration during social unrest. Trad media were just short of tattooing a tricolour on her forehead
Rhasidat should have been allowed to develop in Texas and left alone as other developing Irish athletes are. In time or never she could perform but without the pressure or faux hype and definitely not the politically driven side pressures
It’s one thing to have an injury and trying to recover it’s unfair to have the weight of a nation foisted upon you in your early 20s
Just my observation
Coach Flo must go
My favourite lesser spotted world record here. Sonia O’Sullivan breaks the 2,000 metres world record at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank Stadium (home of Meadowbank Thistle) in July 1994. Yvonne Murray in her designated role of hanging onto the back of Sonia for as long as she can before Sonia pulls away, a neat metaphor for the historic trajectories of Ireland and Scotland as nations.