Christ alive, Heffernan is a painful twat.
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Ruining the Olympics
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Great to hear that sheās very likely to compete in the relay tomorrow. Presume McRory will be the unlucky one to miss out.
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Definitely.
Her age profile is greatā¦ Sheāll be in prime years for 2 games
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TFK had flagged she needed to be 48.X to medal & that fade out in the last hundred was the difference. Finishing 4th is a sickener but thereās plenty to build on. Hopefully she can help the 4x400 team to a medal tomorrow night too.
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Heās getting abuse for no reason at this stage. What did he say wrong there?
McRory will be named and will march in the parade and all but rhashidat will throw off the tracksuit top then and take her place.
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The winner seemed to take her foot off the gas. Almost like she didnāt want to have too good a time.
He talks nonsensical bollix. Heās constantly forced to reference either his wife or young children around the country because he has no grasp of his subject. He makes wild and inaccurate predictions and you can see the disdain that proper Olympic athletes like Derval and Sonia hold him in. He even sounds like a cunt.
Anything else?
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Ah fuck it anyway. I thought the Pole would disappoint and Rhashidat might run 49.1 or so. As it turned out, the medal was never on with Kazcmarak breaking the 49. Still very disappointing though.
No reason? Are you deaf?
We were complaining about Gillick being a glorified social media manager but I think he had no alternative but to approach the Rhashidat interview like that. It was actually lovely, seeing him pick her up like that. At the start she might have burst out crying.
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Heās from Cork?
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All those walkers are the same. Korzeniowski the three time gold medallist is on the Eurosport Poland panel and heās a painful cunt too.
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It was, he handled it sensitively
This isnāt some 8 team sport like stick-stick or rubby mate. Sheās in the top 8 in the world in the toughest track distance. To say she isnāt elite is silly. She isnāt the best is probably the correct way of putting it
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I hate Heffernan just because heās a competitive walker. Over on BBC nearly everyone on their panel is a drugs cheat but at least they didnāt cheat at walking.
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Rhasidat Adelekeās career is quite clearly paralleling that of Sonia OāSullivan.
OāSullivan first appeared in major competition at the 1990 European Championships in Split.
The 2022 European Championships were Adelekeās equivalent.
OāSullivan finished fourth at a European Olympics in 1992.
Adeleke has now finished fourth at a European Olympics.
Sheāll have one more year of pain and disappointment in 2025 like Sonia had in 1993, but maybe pull out a medal at the Worlds like Sonia pulled out a medal in her less favoured race and then by 2026 sheāll cruise to the European title and start to move into pole position to win the world title in 2027.
Then sheāll go into an Olympics in the US as the big favourite. I wonāt go any further in the parallels than that.
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