SONIA O’SULLIVAN returns to the big stage tomorrow when she lines up for the 13th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi.

SOME of Ireland’s Olympic hopefuls have been going through a rough patch in recent days.

Sonia O’Sullivan has revealed she will chase the Olympic 5,000 metres gold medal rather than race over double that distance in Athens.

Tracey Morris is hoping for a quieter existence after today’s BUPA Great Manchester Run – until August at least.

Sonia O’Sullivan scored one of the best wins of her international career in today’s BUPA Great Manchester Run.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will be out to win the BUPA Great South 10k in Manchester on Sunday despite having the Olympics on her mind.

PAUL McKEE walked away from his seasonal debut in Cardiff at the weekend with mixed feelings after running a personal best for 100 metres and following up with a dismal run over 300m, the race he had targeted.

Sonia O’Sullivan also produced a marvellous performance against reigning World 10,000m champion Berhane Adere in their BUPA 5,000m confrontation at today’s Balmoral Road Races..

Olympic 5,000 metres silver-medallist Sonia O’Sullivan made a superb start to her summer season with a win over the distance in the United States overnight.

Newly-crowned world cross-country champion Benita Johnson has confirmed she is a definite starter for May’s Balmoral Road Races.

FROM the crumbs of a rather bare table came medals of joy for the Irish at the concluding session of the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest yesterday when the 4x400 metres relay team took bronze after a drama which would have been difficult to script.

World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe was surprisingly beaten into third place in the Chiba International Ekiden Relay when she ran the first leg for Great Britain.

A course record is expected to fall to world-beater Paula Radcliffe when she heads the British challenge for honours in tomorrow’s Chiba International Ekiden Relay in Japan.

SEAMUS POWER has indicated that he will defend his title at the Loughrea 5-mile road race on Sunday.

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN, Ireland’s silver medallist from the world championships in Paris, will walk alongside the runners in the BUPA Great Ireland run in the Phoenix Park on Sunday week.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN is prepared to run faster than ever in her quest for a medal at the world championships in Paris today.

TEN years ago, Chinese trio Qu Yunxia, Zhang Linli and Zhang Lirong deprived Sonia O’Sullivan of a medal in the final of the 3,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart.

Sonia O’Sullivan reckons she will have to run faster than ever before to win a World Championship 5,000 metres medal in Paris on Saturday – but believes she is in the right shape to do just that.

Ireland's former 5000m world champion Sonia O'Sullivan comfortably qualified for Saturday's final in a season's best time of 14 minutes 55.50secs.

ON Saturday night, Sonia O’Sullivan watched Berhane Adere win the 10,000m title with her now familiar devastating sprint that demolished the gold medal aspirations of her Ethiopian team-mate Werknesh Kindane and Yingie Sun of China, who were the only two athletes remaining in the contest for the medals at the end of a sensational race.

IT may be his first major assignment, but Cathal Lombard is approaching tomorrow’s 10,000m final at the world championships in Paris with a level of professionalism that has left nothing to chance.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN did not feel cheated out of an Olympic gold medal when French border police discovered drugs, thought to be performance enhancing, in a car belonging to Gabriela Szabo, two weeks ago.

IRELAND’S Olympic 5,000m silver medallist, Sonia O’Sullivan, goes head to head with Paula Radcliffe for today’s inaugural Great Manchester Run.

Speculation that double European silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan will run an autumn marathon increased today when the Irish star announced her racing programme for the next six weeks.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN put in a spirited finish in the 3000m in Zurich last night and almost snatched second place from Russia’s Tatyana Tomashova, but neither were a match for winner Berhane Adere.

AS expected, Sonia O’Sullivan and the newly-crowned European 5,000m champion, Marta Dominguez of Spain, will renew rivalry at the Weltklasse in Zurich tonight but Gabriela Szabo has jumped ship and elected to run in the 1,500m race.

Sonia O’Sullivan clocked up a personal best time of 1 hour 10 minutes and four seconds on her way to finishing 14th in the women’s World Half Marathon in Brussels today.

Paula Radcliffe is not taking anything for granted even though her three top rivals will be missing when she defends her World Cross Country long course title in Dublin tomorrow.

World 10,000 metres silver medallist Berhane Adere has decided not to take part in the IAAF World Cross Country race in Dublin on Saturday.

Paula Radcliffe suffered heartbreak in the 10,000 metres once again as she was squeezed out of the medals and into fourth place.