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London Diamond League: Rhasidat Adeleke posts SB in 200m; Irish record for women's 4x100m relay team
Competing in the London Diamond League, Rhasidat Adeleke posted a season's best 22.52 seconds in the 200m, while the Irish women's 4x100m relay team of Sarah Leahy, Lauren Roy, Ciara Neville and Sarah Lavin broke the national record with a time of 43.73. In what has been a mixed season so far for Adeleke, she did improve on the 22.57 she ran in Florida in April in finishing fourth, with victory going to her training partner Julien Alfred in a personal best time of 21.71. She forged clear in the latter stages to finish ahead of British duo Dina Asher-Smith (22.25) and Amy Hunt (22.31). The relay quartet bettered the mark of 43.80, which has stood since 2018. They came home fourth behind Great Britain, Jamaica and France. In the women's mile event, Sarah Healy achieved a PB when coming home third in four minutes 16.25 seconds. She now moves to second on the Irish all-time list for the distance behind Ciara Mageean.
RTÉ News
10-07-2025
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Rhasidat Adeleke pulls out of Diamond League 400m in Monaco
Rhasidat Adeleke has pulled out of Friday night's Diamond League 400m in Monaco. As yet, no reason has been given for the 22-year-old's withdrawal from a race she won last year. Adeleke was a distant fourth (clocking 51.33) in the Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon last weekend, running well below her best. A year ago she ran 49.17 in Monaco to beat the Netherlands' Lieke Klaver and USA's Kendall Ellis. This week's setback is an unwelcome disruptor for Adeleke, who is building towards September's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Irish Times
10-07-2025
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- Irish Times
Rhasidat Adeleke withdraws from Monaco Diamond League
Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke is a late withdrawal from the 400 metres at Friday's Monaco Diamond League, casting some doubt over her racing schedule in the coming weeks. With a composed and dominant performance, Adeleke won the event at Stade Louis II in Monaco a year ago. Her time of 49.17 seconds was just shy of her Irish record of 49.07 set a month previous, although she's been well short of breaking 50 seconds in her three 400m Diamond League appearances so far this summer. No exact reason has been given for Adeleke's decision to by-pass Monaco. The 22-year-old had been among the entries originally listed earlier this week, and was then absent when the eight-lane line-up was confirmed on Thursday morning. At last Saturday's Pre Classic meeting in Eugene, Oregon, at no point did Adeleke appear anywhere near her best when finishing fourth. Sluggish from the gun, missing her usual spark throughout, her time of 51.33 was her slowest time this summer. There was some tapping on her knee, suggesting she may be dealing with some injury issues of late. READ MORE Adeleke's opening Diamond League appearances in the 400m last month, in Oslo and then Stockholm, were also below par. She faded to sixth in the homestretch in Stockholm, running 50.48, having run 50.42 to finish fourth in Oslo three nights before. The line-up in Monaco includes Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic, who has already run 48.81 to win the Paris Diamond League, along with Olympic bronze medallist Natalia Kaczmarek-Bukowiecka from Poland, who finished ahead of fourth-placed Adeleke in Paris. From the outset of this particularly long season, Adeleke has been talking about timing things differently. However, this mid-season interruption was not anticipated with the World Championships in Tokyo only two months away. Next Saturday's London Diamond League, where last year Adeleke ran the 200m, doesn't feature a women's 400m. The Diamond League then takes a break until Silesia in Poland on August 16th, in part to allow for the staging of National Championships and World Championship trials. The Irish Championships will take place in Santry on August 2nd/3rd, and Adeleke is expected to make an appearance there, winning the 100m last year in a new Irish record of 11.13 seconds. Given her last three performances have been regressing, Adeleke will want to show some return to top form before the World Championships if she is to challenge for a medal. While Monaco includes several other Olympic rematches, including Noah Lyles from the US and Letsile Tebogo from Botswana in the 200m, and the full podium in the men's 800m, Adeleke can perhaps take some comfort from the fact Olympic 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen from Norway and Britain's 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson have yet to race outdoors this season due to injury, yet still hope to be fit for Tokyo. Over a dozen other Irish Olympians will be in action on Friday evening at the Morton International Games in Santry, including Sharlene Mawdsley in a high-quality 400m, and Andrew Coscoran and Cathal Doyle in the headline event, the Morton Mile. Jack Raftery runs the men's 400m having recently clocked 44.98, joining David Gillick as the second member of the Irish sub-45 club, with Israel Olatunde will be eyeing his Irish 100m record of 10.12 seconds.
Irish Times
05-07-2025
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- Irish Times
Off-form Rhasidat Adeleke finishes fourth in Pre Classic 400m in Eugene
A still visibly off-form Rhasidat Adeleke had to settle for fourth place over 400 metres in Saturday's Pre Classic meeting in Eugene, Oregon, her time of 51.33 seconds once again well outside her best. At the ninth stop on the Diamond League circuit, staged at the famed Hayward Field, Adeleke started out cautiously, a small tapping around her knee suggesting she may be carrying a slight injury of late. Coming into the homestretch in fifth, the 22-year-old held her form to move up to fourth, but finished some distance behind Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone from the US, who dominated the race to win in 49.43. McLaughlin-Levrone was also off her best of 48.74, set two years ago, but the breezy conditions were not ideal. Aaliyah Butler took second in 49.86, with US team-mate Bella Whittaker third in 50.81. Adeleke's opening Diamond League appearances in the 400m last month, in Oslo and then Stockholm, were also under par. She faded to sixth in the homestretch in the latter, running 50.48. She had run 50.42 to finish fourth in Oslo three nights before. Another McLaughlin Masterclass 👌 📷Logan Hannigan-Downs for Diamond League AG — Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) At 25, McLaughlin-Levrone is the Olympic and World champion in the 400m hurdles, the event in which she has lowered the world record on six occasions, and had requested the event in Eugene, which was not part of the Diamond League programme. From the outset of this particularly long season, the World Championships in Tokyo still over two months away, Adeleke has been talking about timing things differently. However, her Irish record of 49.07, set in June of last year, is for now looking well out of reach. Next up for the Dubliner is a trip to Monaco next Friday, where she scored her first Diamond League victory last year, running 49.17 seconds. Only this time she'll have the Olympic and World champion Marileidy Paulino for company. Kenya's double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has been knocking on world records already this summer, and delivered in style in Eugene, winning the 5,000m in 13:58.06. It marks the first sub-14 minute clocking on the track, taking down the 14:00.21 held by Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay. Earlier, Ireland's Orla Comerford produced another excellent victory in the Para Athletics mixed-class 100m, winning in 12.14 seconds ahead of Brittni Mason from the US.
Irish Daily Mirror
05-07-2025
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Dublin hurling thriving and one club encapsulates what is building in the GAA
'And we're all off to Dublin in the green, in the green, "Where the helmets glisten in the sun, 'Where the camans flash, and the hurleys clash, 'To the rattle of the game hard won...' - The Dubliners (sort of) 1969 There are 30 senior hurling clubs spread across three senior divisions in Dublin and Thomas Davis — founded in 1888 — can hold their heads up with any. They have been county champions, one of only 27, but remain a village/community club - indeed their nickname is 'The Little Village' Tallaght may be the largest 'village' in Ireland but don't doubt its sporting acumen. Thomas Davis are a dual-code senior outfit while Shamrock Rovers reside nearby and Tallaght AC has been Rhasidat Adeleke's springboard. But as club chairman Paul Nugent, Games Development Officer Stephen Stewart, club stalwart Terry Carthy and senior hurler Jack O'Connor can attest, Dublin's 2025 inter-county hurling side is in 'The Ready Position' - just one win away from a first All-Ireland SHC final in 64 years. That was before The Dubliners — with local hero Ciaran Bourke (tin whistle, flute, guitar) one of their three founding members — released their iconic version of The Merry Ploughboy, in 1969. Nugent played all the way through the club's age-grades, senior for 20-odd years, has been involved at intercounty level (1988-91), managed the senior team, been involved in the committees, been football chairman and occupied a few different roles too. But in his first year as chairman he knows there is something very special going on – the surge of excitement about the hurling team can almost be touched. 'Last week and this week has just been phenomenal. I suppose over the last 20 years, it was all about football, and obviously, with the six-in-a-row team, everyone was interested in that but it probably died down a little bit. 'You know, we used to get 82,000 into Croke Park all the time for the footballers but I suppose winning too much can breed a little bit of neglect, let's say. 'When Dublin won that match against Limerick, the surge in anticipation was plain to see, straight away we had hundreds of applications for tickets for the next match — I suppose people are longing to see them doing well. 'It's been creeping up over the last 10 years of effort put into Dublin hurling. I suppose it takes time to compete with the Kilkennys and Corks, who are hurlers all their lives and by nature go to school with a hurley, but we're getting there!' These weeks are camp weeks across the GAA; here on Kiltipper Road they alternate between football and hurling week on week and Thomas Davis is awash with kids, a reflection of a burgeoning underage section. 'We cater for 300 four-to-seven year old kids in our Saturday morning Academy and another 600 at CCC1 and CCC2 levels at weekends,' says Games Development Officer Stephen Stewart, who combines his work at club level with responsibility for 10 primary schools. His is an interesting combination, blowing his whistle, keeping the volunteers busy, handling logistics for different groups/different ages – he's a watchman, full of encouragement and perhaps helped by his primary schools' role, he seems to know every kid's name! Club dual star and 2022-24 Dublin minor football panelist Jack O'Connor is working skills with 11 year-old Ruairí Ó Murchú, part of a wider group on Thomas Davis's astro-pitch. 'Watching the last game and the lads pulling through with the red card. I was in more shock than anything,' says O'Connor. 'I think they kind of just bonded, came together as one team instead of trying to play as 14 individuals unlike the Limerick team on the day. 'They held together, stuck to their tasks, did the basics better. I really like their mix within the team, sure, some are more disciplined than others, some would be more skillful than others, but they've worked these things together and that's been a thing. 'Overall, style-wise I really like the way they work off the ball, try to play easy transfers, and they have been getting into acres of space for free shots, I think that's a great part of their skill. 'Sean Currie has been an unbelievable player for them, highest scorer for Dublin and the highest scorer in the Championship, also Conor Burke, Conor Donohoe.' This semi-final could be a game specifically about goals... 'Especially with the way the Limerick game unfolded. Cian O'Sullivan and John Hetherton's two goals in space a minute proved vital because the Dubs only won by two points. 'I think they will need to think clinically about goals against Cork but they have shown they definitely have goals in them, especially from those long, driven frees.' And yet Dublin hurling is not just about attaining a first All-Ireland final for seven decades, even if it is on the back of All-Ireland titles for Na Fianna (2025) and Cuala (2018 & 2017). They are the first Dublin clubs to have won that but this it was on the shoulders of a hell of a lot of club building - there have been 124 Dublin senior hurling Championships, dating back to 1887. Thomas Davis were on board for the county Championship within a year, a little-known entity from a tiny village against the backdrop of the Dublin mountains, its future as one of the city's thriving sprawls a long way off. Says Nugent of then and now: 'Our current facility was only bought in 1982, before that we were down near the village. We used to have a pitch there that we rented from Kevin Molloy, the local publican. 'Kevin was a barrister by trade, a very professional guy and on the committee here, and was instrumental in us buying this land in the late 1970/80s and starting us off here which was fantastic. 'We have an all-weather facility here albeit it's down 20 years and for which we are hoping to raise a lot of money, maybe ¤500k, to get it recovered alongside two main pitches, one we purchased from An Post probably six or seven years ago and we've recently developed. 'So we have great facilities but we also have over 100 teams so you never have enough facilities. It's always a battle with the county council to try and get enough pitches to cater for maybe 50 home games every weekend or during the week.' Dublin-Cork match will be the focus of this weekend for those who go to Croker, but there will also be those in a heaving and excited clubhouse catching the action. 'Yeah, we have our travel organised, one of the lads here has coaches and buses (Gerry Moore's Ridgway Coaches) so whatever is required it's kind of put out. There's at least a couple of buses going and if the demand is there for more he just puts them on. 'The clubhouse will be packed. We are not simply 'open' to the public for the day, we would always be welcoming to anyone in the local community, and over the last couple of years we've developed what we have to offer here. 'We have a cafe that opens at 9am, serves breakfast and then lunches up to half-two, then Thursday to Sunday we have food upstairs anyway.' Drop down if you are near! Thomas Davis are confident you'll like what you see, a modern, well-run operation, part of the identity of thriving Tallaght. 'It's a big community hub here and we field 100 teams each week. There's just loads of people giving a hand, running things like the Tallaght Festival or the St Patrick's Day parade, you put a small committee together and you try and get things done. 'There's two or three mentors with each team, then you have ground staff, you have committee staff, you are always looking for people to come in and help out and we've over 300 volunteers here -— volunteerism, as most people understand, is actually where the GAA is.' 'Actually it is the young people who are the lifeblood of this club,' says longtime club veteran Terry Carthy. 'They're fantastic, you take those helping at the camps today, they're going to be the Paul Nugents of tomorrow. 'Paul was a coach here one time too — now the young coaches are they're going on to play senior football and senior hurling. That's the way it works here. 'They are a fantastic group of young people, you couldn't get better in any area, in any other sport, because the idea is that it has to be that it is self-sustaining, that has to be your target.' 'You're always working at something,' says Nugent from the Thomas Davis bridge. 'I suppose, there's always a bit of fundraising going on, and here in Tallaght, a lower income area, it can be harder to raise funds. 'Our senior hurlers are in Division 1B, one down from the top echelon. We kind of went up and down a couple of times over the years but it's a big jump and we've struggled with it. 'Our footballers are in the top division, we got to the Championship final in 2020 and we'd be optimistic this year, we have a couple of lads who came back from abroad so it has strengthened our team. 'We have an intermediate team playing in Division 3 and our junior team is playing Division 5 in football so to have three teams at one, three and five is excellent. 'The girls' section is just thriving, imagine we have just one minor (Under-18) boys team but three minor girl teams. 'Obviously then, we are looking to re-cover our all-weather pitch, you're always trying to get a few grants and South Dublin County Council have been good to us over the years, or the government, let's say, with the grants originally. 'We have a big facility here that helps the whole community and we are proud to represent it too.'
