Barcelona 2010

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Anyone watching the athletics? 4th in the walk for Rob Heffernan,Gillick and Kennedy through to the men's 400m semis, Jason Smyth through to the men's 100m semis, Ailis McSweeney through to the women's 100m semis and right now Tori Pena is in action in the women's pole vault having already set a new national record of 4.15 this morning. She needs 4.40 to qualify.

[Slipper1]

Yep - didnt know about the blind guy, looking forward to seeing him run.
Olive Loughnane pulled out of the walk due to illness.

4th place is a real bitch - though in my limited knowledge, he didnt seem anywhere near catching a medal.

Seems to have been a good plan by Athletics Ireland to send such a big team to get experience, some of them seem to be performing well.

There seemed no one in the stadium yesterday, I presume it will fill up as the week progresses.

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Well Heffernan was expected to finish in the top 10 and ended up only seconds outside the medals so it was a fine performance.

Tori couldn't make 4.25 so she's out but with a new National Record.

Stephanie O'Reilly is running in heat 1 of the 3000m steeplechase at the moment for anyone with access to a TV.

Live online coverage here: http://www.sportresult.com/sports/la/aj ... 18&lang=en

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No joy for Stephanie with a 10th place finish but as Slipper said, a lot of this is about experience ahead of London 2012

Fionnuala Britton is running in the 2nd heat.

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Fionnuala finished 6th and qualifies for the final.

Next up for Ireland is David McCarthy in the 2nd heat of the men's 800m.

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Finished 5th in 1:49:53 making him the 2nd fastest runner up with two heats to go. Getting beyond the heats would be more than was expected.

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The last two heats were slower than David's so he makes the semi finals.

Good morning's work by the Irish athletes with 3 runners going through to the next round.

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This morning Derval O'Rourke won her 100m hurdles heat and Rob Heffernan is currently 4th in the men's 50K with 5K to go. Deirdre Ryan is in the High Jump qualifying later this morning.

Yesterday Paul Hession qualified for the 200m final while Ailis McSweeney missed out on the 100m final by .01 seconds. Alistair Cragg qualified for the 5K final. David Gillick is in the 400m final later today.

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With 3k to go the Russian Bakulin started to fade and dropped from 2nd but the gap was too big and Rob couldn't catch him and finished in 4th.

Colin Griffin finished 11th in the same race.

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A Seasonal Best of 1.90 was 2cm too low for Deirdre Ryan to qualify for the High Jump final.

Next up for Ireland is Niamh Whelan in the 200m heats at 11.20.

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Niamh qualified for the semi finals as a fastest loser.

[Amz]

Derval had a great run in the 100m, did really well to get the silver. I thought she had it won at one point.

[Sauvignon Blank]

Jeez how fast is our Derval go girl

[aisling7]

Derval had a great run in the 100m, did really well to get the silver. I thought she had it won at one point.

Considering she came off the blocks nearly last, she did fantastic. Fair play to her!!

[Amz]

Yeah, she had a very dodgy start by her standards.

Delighted for her. Looking good to do well in next years World Championships if she can stay injury free.

[Mackman15]

Yeah, she had a very dodgy start by her standards.

Delighted for her. Looking good to do well in next years World Championships if she can stay injury free.

She's had a few False starts against her this year so you can understand the anxiety of being booted out at that late stage being a total sickener.
Her performance from there in was incredible and that divided her from the winner was two 1/100ths Sec..... it's centimetres at that rate.

[FrankBurke]

I quite liked the look of Junstine Kinney myself. I think she has plenty of potential...