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An Irishman Abroad

2022 Athletics Season Preview Irishman Running Abroad

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sonia O’Sullivan selects her Irish athletes to watch this summer. She also casts a critical eye over the structures and methods of funding these talented young sports people back home. From Rhasidat Adeleke to Louise Shanahan, Tom Barr to Eric Favors, Sonia has a lot of talented Irish athletes to get through in this jam packed episode.

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0:00.0

You know, I like to be fit and healthy, so the best way I know is to just get out there and run.

0:07.3

Running was an outlet for me to, I guess, feel good about myself and take out some of the angers that were going on in my life.

0:13.6

Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to our...

0:18.2

Has there ever been a better time for Irish athletics?

0:27.1

More involvement than ever before might equate into more interest in our elite athletes than ever before.

0:32.0

But can you actually name the biggest stars of Irish athletics right now?

0:37.9

Well, today on Irishman running abroad, former World Champion Olympic silver medalist, my coach, and yours,

0:43.2

Sonio Sullivan, will provide the full rundown of who to watch out for this season.

0:45.6

Who is coming up fast from the back of the pack?

0:47.6

Who's the new superstar in the making?

0:50.7

Who will be knocking on the door of the top three at the big meets?

0:56.1

And most of all, who do we really need to support when they're traveling around the international circuit trying to make it to where Sonia went in the 1990s? Well, for the last

1:02.6

one, Sonia, I think the answer is all of them. We really need to get behind and support our athletes,

1:08.1

right? Oh, well, you always do, yeah. But I suppose the thing is there's so much going on this year

1:13.4

that people will have so much to follow and support.

1:18.0

But I think the athletes are going to have to make some smart decisions this year as well.

1:23.9

Because there's the world championships they're on in Eugene, Oregon in July

1:28.1

and the European championships

1:30.1

are on in Munich, in August.

1:34.0

And I think there could be a little bit of FOMO going on here

1:37.9

and athletes would fear of missing out of going to Eugene.

1:40.9

But if you were really smart,

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