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Heffernan get bronze in Euro's

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  • #2
    dna_leri
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    I hope he gets the medal on a podium the way it should be, not delivered in the post or via some minor official.

    Maybe they can do it as part of this year's ceremony.


  • #3
    Rineanna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭Rineanna


    I'm glad he's getting his due recognition, albeit too late.

    Maybe AAI can organise a nice ceremony for Heffernan, O'Rourke and McGettigan to receive their bronze medals, followed by a bronze-medal themed night out on the lash.


  • #4
    jebuz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭jebuz


    Rineanna wrote: »
    I'm glad he's getting his due recognition, albeit too late.

    Maybe AAI can organise a nice ceremony for Heffernan, O'Rourke and McGettigan to receive their bronze medals, followed by a bronze-medal themed night out on the lash.

    Yeah and maybe I can get that bronze medal for the 200m in sports day 1994, I know Jimmy Conroy was using, I know it


  • #5
    rom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭rom


    Rineanna wrote: »
    I'm glad he's getting his due recognition, albeit too late.

    Maybe AAI can organise a nice ceremony for Heffernan, O'Rourke and McGettigan to receive their bronze medals, followed by a bronze-medal themed night out on the lash.

    Probably would be byo the way he was treated on his return from London.


  • #6
    Chivito550
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    In a funny way, maybe it worked out better than he is only getting this medal now, rather than 4 years ago. Had he won bronze in the 20k in Barca, would he have bothered doing the 50k a few days later? Would his focus have stayed with 20k then for London? Would he have become World Champion in 2013?

    Hopefully, in time, he will also get upgraded to bronze for his performance in London.

    On a side note, it's a bit of a farce now that Alex Schwarzer will now be upgraded to gold, given the fact he too is a convicted doper. Rob should be getting silver!!


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  • #7
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    On a side note, it's a bit of a farce now that Alex Schwarzer will now be upgraded to gold, given the fact he too is a convicted doper. Rob should be getting silver!!

    Wasn't Schwazer's positive test in 2012, two years after Barcelona?


  • #8
    Chivito550
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Wasn't Schwazer's positive test in 2012, two years after Barcelona?

    Yeh it was. He was obviously juiced to his eyeballs long before that though. That's the sad thing about doping. Like with Yanit in Barcelona, they have no evidence to suggest they were at it back then, even though we all know they were.


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