Sonia O’Sullivan: Serbia will be a true measure for Irish athletes

I was reminded this week that it’s 25 years since I won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Paris.
There aren’t many pictures it seems, and when I had to go looking, all I could find was one captioned “disappointing silver medal”, in the 3,000 metres, Gabriela Szabo coming inside of me to win by less than half a second.
Back in 1997, the bar was set so high that I didn’t even get to celebrate a world silver medal. We were a team of eight Irish athletes, and all we came away with was one disappointing silver medal. I’m not even sure where …

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