see that the commonwealth games are on.......cheering on the Norfolk islands myself...hope they bring a few medals home... Does anyone have an opinion on Sonia running for Australia.......I think its a bit greedy myself....she is over the hill....and why doesnt she let some young Ozzie girl take her place anyway...i never really did like her
How many World championship and European Championship (indoor and out), Olympic, and World Cross Country medals have you got Fr. Ted??? Sonia has won 8!! Picking up gold in all but the Olympics!! How about former (not sure if she still holds the 2000m record as it is so rarely run) World records and Irish records??? If some of our footballers could be as much of a "flop" as her on the international stage we'd going to Germany
well come to think of it she has only got the silver olympic medal.....no cross country medals.....a european gold...and (im not sure) but a world silver..... but who cares...its running for chriss sakes...........for me she just rabbits on too much...i always preferred that romanian one....she ran like she was going to drop and the way she was whinging on about not getting the irish grant for the last olympics....jaysus i think ireland should forget about the olympics anyway...a load of bolli x...sure isnt winning in Cheltenham more than enough for the nation
World/European Championships is to the Olympics as the League Cup is to the Champions League. Noone really cares that much if someone won the World Championships. The Olympics is the big one. People dont even bother cheating for the Worlds or Euros. She's like Eamonn Coughlin. He won the World Championships when he gave that look when passing the Soviet guy. World Record holder in the indoor. But they both failed on several occasions in the big one.
She won the world cross country short race and long race in the same year and took a team silver- the first person to do so in 1998 (she also won 2 European golds that year) and won a world championship in 1995! Thats ridiculous to say that the World Championships is as good as a league cup.... It is the best bar to an athletes position in the years in between Olympics and unlike indoor championships or something like the Commonwealth games- every top athlete in the world is at them!! Its maybe the equivalent of a European cup to the World Cup in terms of importance. The only event she ever "flopped" in was the 1996 Olympics where tho the fastest runner in the world for the 2 previous years at 1500, 3000 and 5000 she got ill and was shit!! 1992 Oympics she was an unexpected 4th- beaten b 3 Chinese who were all later banned AFAIK, 2000 Olympics she was a surprising 2nd and 2004 she was happy just to be there....
no way are you sure you are not confusing her with the excellent Catriona Mckiernan...in the cross country i can only ever remember her never beating Gzabo or...for that matter Matulo
Positive Caitriona has 3 silvers never won gold. As for Szabo Sonia hammered her in Europeans in 1998 on her way to gold- and continually beat her early in her career!!! No idea who Matulo is- Mutola races 1500 and 800, but by the time she came on the scene Sonia AFAIK had moved up from 1500 to 5000
hm mm looks like you might be right about the cross country...looked it up quickly on the net....very strange cause i dont remember it at all...must have passed the whole country by...... but strangely i can always remember Mckiernan's races...........maybe people prefer hard luck stories...?....
well i guess my memory is a bit selective!...but im sure she did run against mutola in the 1500...before she moved up by the way...can you remember the skinny Swede that ran against her?
She's after pulling out injured by the way!!! Now she's setting her sights on running in Europeans for us!! I do have to admit that I hope some young runners start coming through soon- Sonia doesn't look like she's gonna stop anytime soon and at 36 Id hate for all people to remember her by was shit performances at the end of her career