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Build up to Berlin European Championships

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With European Championships on the horizon figured no harm getting this thread up and running and hopefully build a bit of momentum of the back of the recent media buzz around Irish athletics

Interesting to see that team is shaping up well enough considering there was talk about being the smallest team in recent history to go to a major championship

Phil Healy – 100, 200, 400
Marcus Lawler - 200
Thomas Barr – 400h
Mark English - 800
Ciara Mageean – 1500
Claire Mooney – 800
Stephen Scullion – 10,000
Emma Mitchell – 10,000
Ben Reynolds – 110 h
Adam McMullen – Long Jump
Somer Lecky - High Jump
Mick Clohisey – Marathon
Paul Pollock – Marathon
Sean Hehir – Marathon
Sergiu Ciobanu – Marathon
Kevin Seaward – Marathon
Breege Connolly – Marathon
Glady’s Ganiel – Marathon
Laura Graham – Marathon
Lizzie Lee – Marathon
Claire McCarthy – Marathon
Alex Wright - Walk

By my reckoning we have 26 athletes qualified with 21 looking likely to go;
- Sarah Healy ruled herself out
- Word is Boyce and McManamon are injured in the walk
- English is a doubt after Morton Games
- Gregan out of action for the next month atleast

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Strazdas

I thought Reid might be in a spot of bother coming off the bend but his finish was excellent.

gmisk

Wow shocked Gemili was so poor in that semi of the 200m... Might make it as a fastest loser.

Great to have an Irish athlete to cheers on in final!

DONTMATTER

Reid's a bit cocky but that's sprinters for ya! He's delighted to be wearing the green.

DONTMATTER

6th fastest qualifier. Will need to run a PB to medal in my opinion.

ultrapercy

So an african running for israel just won the European 10000. As they say,just saying.

Itziger

ultrapercy wrote: »

So an african running for israel just won the European 10000. As they say,just saying.

Not quite as bad as some of the Turkish cases though. The Dutch girl in second was out on her feet towards the end.

Faugheen

Itziger wrote: »

ultrapercy wrote: »

So an african running for israel just won the European 10000. As they say,just saying.

Not quite as bad as some of the Turkish cases though.

Like a certain Copello...

normanoffside

Itziger wrote: »

Not quite as bad as some of the Turkish cases though.

At least it could be argued that parts of Turkey are in Europe....

Working class heroes

ultrapercy wrote: »

So an african running for israel just won the European 10000. As they say,just saying.

In fairness she has a genuine connection to Israel.
Ah, as I typed the word Israel I get where you are coming from..... I think.

Chivito550

ultrapercy wrote: »

So an african running for israel just won the European 10000. As they say,just saying.

She’s lived there for years, moving over originally to work.

ger664

DONTMATTER wrote: »

6th fastest qualifier. Will need to run a PB to medal in my opinion.

I was very impressed with his run today and I think there is more there. He seemed to find an extra gear of the bend but looked comfortable towards the finish. Could have won the heat but there are no prizes for that. IMO he has a every chance of a medal if everything clicks.

Chivito550

ger664 wrote: »

I was very impressed with his run today and I think there is more there. He seemed to find an extra gear of the bend but looked comfortable towards the finish. Could have won the heat but there are no prizes for that. IMO he has a every chance of a medal if everything clicks.

Winning the heat ensures a middle lane. He could have ended up in lane 1 because he didn’t win his heat. Thankfully he has lane 8 instead.

EC1000

Chivito550 wrote: »

She’s lived there for years, moving over originally to work.

Think its the fact that Israel is not in Europe that was being referred to!

DONTMATTER

Very disappointing morning. English needs to seriously reassess. Let's hope we have better news with our 2 finals later.

Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) 400m hurdles Final 19:15

Leon Reid (Menapians) 200m Final 20:05

What do we think? 2 medals? 0 medals? 1? I have a horrible feeling that it could be two 4ths.

Chivito550

EC1000 wrote: »

Think its the fact that Israel is not in Europe that was being referred to!

Nothing new there though. They are in Europe for many other sports.

djemba djemba

DONTMATTER wrote: »

Very disappointing morning. English needs to seriously reassess. Let's hope we have better news with our 2 finals later.

Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) 400m hurdles Final 19:15

Leon Reid (Menapians) 200m Final 20:05

What do we think? 2 medals? 0 medals? 1? I have a horrible feeling that it could be two 4ths.

Will these be on Tv tonight. I see rte 2 are showing the cork city soccer match tonight.

Edit: coverage of the football starts at 7.30 so the Thomas Barr race should be on.

DONTMATTER

djemba djemba wrote: »

Will these be on Tv tonight. I see rte 2 are showing the cork city soccer match tonight.

Edit: coverage of the football starts at 7.30 so the Thomas Barr race should be on.

Yes, Barr race will be on RTÉ 2 and Reid's race will be on RTÉ news now.

titan18

Bronze!!!!!

Well done Thomas

jamule

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Ted_YNWA

Great result for Thomas,

Strazdas

Barr was immense down the home straight. There was a danger for a moment he might fade but then got his second wind and finished strongly.

walshb

Great run by Barr. AlwYs strong in the last 100..

velo.2010

Great championship run by Barr. Fast times are great and all but its racing at the end of the day and he came third in the European final.

Don't get the BBC obsession though with Irish athletes.

Faugheen

Strazdas wrote: »

Barr was immense down the home straight. There was a danger for a moment he might fade but then got his second wind and finished strongly.

It never looked in danger in my opinion. Barr is known to be a fast finisher. It's the one thing you notice in all his races that he gets a good turn of foot in the final 100.

Delighted for him. His hard work deserves that moment.

Strazdas

Faugheen wrote: »

It never looked in danger in my opinion. Barr is known to be a fast finisher. It's the one thing you notice in all his races that he gets a good turn of foot in the final 100.

Delighted for him. His hard work deserves that moment.

He said in his interview he felt he could take the Frenchman all the way down the straight and so it proved.

honeybear

velo.2010 wrote: »

Great championship run by Barr. Fast times are great and all but its racing at the end of the day and he came third in the European final.

Don't get the BBC obsession though with Irish athletes.

Saw someone on another thread say the opposite

Safiri

Isreal are barred from Asian championships in pretty much every sport since the 70's due to the cultural difference between them and the middle Eastern Countries. The main reason being that they because they are Jewish and the middle Eastern Countries will not let them compete in an Asian Championship. A deal was made in the 70's to allow them compete in Europe for a temporary period until the ban was lifted. It never was.

DONTMATTER wrote: »

Very disappointing morning. English needs to seriously reassess.

English has been plagued by injuries this year and is only on the way back now, didn't even expect to see him run these Champs until the National Championships two weeks ago.

Joe_ Public

Delighted for Barr, such an impressive character. Does 3rd in the Europeans supersede 4th at the Olympics? Not sure but, as Derval says, its great to get something tangible to show for it and richly deserved.

Faugheen

I know it's a different race but hopefully this can put a bit of a spring in Reid's step. Two medals would be phenomenal.

walshb

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Delighted for Barr, such an impressive character. Does 3rd in the Europeans supersede 4th at the Olympics? Not sure but, as Derval says, its great to get something tangible to show for it and richly deserved.

No way it trumps 4th. Much deeper global field at Olympics