DERVAL O’ROURKE has been offered a lane in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Golden League meeting in Zurich next Friday night.

DERVAL O’ROURKE brought the curtain own on another incredible day for Irish athletes at the world championships in Berlin when she finished fourth in the final of the 100m hurdles and set a new national record at 12.67 seconds.

DAVID CAMPBELL makes a quick return to competitive running in Germany next Saturday when he lines up for an onslaught on the 1,000m.

A LITTLE under a year ago, David Gillick’s world was caving in around him. His Olympic 400m campaign came and went in 45.83 seconds as he failed to progress beyond the first round in the Bird’s Nest Stadium.

MIDDLE distance fans could be in for a double treat at the Woodies DIY national track and field championships at Santry’s Morton Stadium tomorrow with the possibility of a head to head between Thomas Chamney and David Campbell in both the 800m and the 1,500m finals.

DERVAL O’ROURKE has switched to tomorrow night’s KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden, Belgium, to relaunch her season after being sidelined for the past month with a groin injury.

PAUL HESSION may have lost his winning streak but he maintained his form in Lucerne last night where he finished fifth in the 200m in 20.75 secs.

DAVID GILLICK went to within one hundredth of a second of the biggest win of his career when he chased Chris Brown from the Bahamas across the line in the 400m at last night’s Golden League meeting in Rome.

Ireland's David Gillick sensationally broke the 45-second barrier for the second time in six days at the Golden Gala Meeting in Rome tonight.

LONDON will have to wait to discover whether it will be given a Golden League meeting in a planned restructuring of the series, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) revealed yesterday.

IRISH paralympian Jason Smyth has the talent to compete in the London Olympics, his coach, Stephen Maguire, claimed last night.

DAVID GILLICK withdrew from Saturday’s athletics meeting in Madrid with what was described as a “slight niggle” in his knee.

HOPES of having an Irish men’s 4x400m relay team at this year’s Olympics suffered a blow yesterday with the cancellation of the relay events at tomorrow’s meet in Salamanca, Spain.

PAUL HESSION singled out Brendan Christian (Antigua & Barbuda) as the favourite to win the race before he went to the line for last evening’s 200m at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting in Oslo and then went on to challenge him for the lead coming off the bend.

PAUL HESSION will make an eagerly-awaited seasonal debut next week in Malmo, Sweden, where the Athenry sprinter will try to repeat last year’s record-breaking opener.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have cleared the way for disgraced drugs cheat Marion Jones to be stripped of her Sydney Olympic Games medals by annulling all her results back to 2000.

PAUL HESSION faces three of the top four from the world championships in the men’s 200m at the Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels this evening, with Tyson Gay the only missing medallist.

AFTER a well-earned break followed by some refreshing track sessions, Paul Hession is ready to take on the world’s top 200m runners at the Golden League Meeting in Brussels next Friday night.

World champion Christine Ohuruogu finishing fourth, well beaten by Sanya Richards in their eagerly awaited clash at tonight’s IAAF Golden League meeting in Zurich.

DERVAL O’ROURKE has a time and a position for the world championships in Osaka written in her wardrobe since last year and, despite whatever setbacks she might have had in the meantime, it is still the target.

ALISTER CRAGG will follow an unusual route this weekend in his bid to get back on track for the world championships when he competes in back-to-back 5,000m races in Belgium on Saturday and then at the national championships in the Morton Stadium on Sunday.

ALISTER CRAGG will follow an unusual route this weekend in his bid to get back on track for the world championships when he competes in back-to-back 5,000m races in Belgium on Saturday and then at the national championships in the Morton Stadium on Sunday.

Galway sprinter Paul Hession has broken Paul Brizzel's long-standing Irish 200 metres record tonight by finishing fourth at the British Grand Prix in Sheffield.

PAUL HESSION will be chasing Paul Brizzell’s national 200m record at The Mardyke on Saturday afternoon when some of the world’s best athletes will assemble for Cork City Sports.

DERVAL O’ROURKE finished last of the seven competitors in her Golden League 100m hurdles race at the Bislett Games in Oslo last night, in a time of 13.19 secs.

DERVAL O’ROURKE and Paul Hession head to the first Golden League meeting of the year — the Bislett Games in Oslo tonight — hoping for better weather than that which greeted them at an international meeting in Stavanger, Norway on Wednesday night.

DERVAL O’ROURKE admitted yesterday she faces one of the most difficult assignments of the year when she lines up for the 100m hurdles at Cork City Sports at The Mardyke on June 30.

ASAFA POWELL, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards made it six Golden League wins out of six in Berlin yesterday to earn a cash bonus of $250,000 each.

DERVAL O’ROURKE has decided to call it quits for the season after disappointing runs in Friday night’s Golden League meet in Zurich and Sunday’s Super Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.

American sprinter Marion Jones is at the centre of a new drugs controversy after her withdrawal from last night’s Weltklasse meeting in Zurich.

Derval O'Rourke struggled to seventh in the 100 metres hurdles at the Weltklasse/IAAF Gold League meeting in Zurich tonight.

DERVAL O’ROURKE left for Zurich’s Weltklasse yesterday, following a path that has been well worn by the likes of Eamonn Coghlan, Ray Flynn, Marcus O’Sullivan, Frank O’Mara, Mark Carroll and Sonia O’Sullivan.

DERVAL O’ROURKE will share the limelight with the stars of world athletics at the Golden League meet in Zurich next Friday night as she sets about reaping the financial rewards of the silver medal she won at the European championships in Gothenburg.

ALISTAIR CRAGG took another big step towards European gold this summer with a personal best in a historic 5,000 metres in New York.

LIMERICK man Liam Reale added his name to the growing list of qualifiers for the European championships when he finished second in the elite men’s 1,500m race at last weekend’s Boston High Performance meeting.

DERVAL O’ROURKE is all set to take her place in the line-up for the 100m hurdles at the BUPA Cork City Sports this afternoon relieved to be finally able to get her outdoor season under way after an injury scare.

OLYMPIC 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin returned to form with victory in 9.96 seconds at the Rome Golden Gala yesterday.

Ethiopian track star Kenenisa Bekele is almost certain to make an attempt on his 5,000 metres world record at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Paris.

WORLD 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell will take on Olympic champions Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford as well as world sprint champion Kim Collins in a world-class 100m in Rome on July 8.

World 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell will take on Olympic champions Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford as well as world sprint champion Kim Collins in a world-class 100m in Rome next month.

The agent of Marion Jones insists he is not aware of plans to exclude the former triple Olympic champion from European meetings because of links to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO).

World 1,500 metres bronze-medallist Hayley Tullett starts a busy weekend tonight when she runs in the Paris IAAF Golden League meeting.

A quintet of would-be Golden League millionaires have confirmed their entry to Friday’s Paris leg of the lucrative series.

GARY RYAN has always found The Mardyke something of a happy hunting ground for fast times but he will be looking for something extra today in his Olympic qualifying standard quest at the BUPA Cork City Sports.