BERNARD WILLIAMS may be the Olympic silver medallist at 200m but the track’s greatest entertainer is only on standby for that event at the BUPA Cork City Sports International Track and Field Meeting this afternoon and that demonstrates the amount of talent that will be on show at The Mardyke (2pm).

Ballymena sprinter Paul Brizzel is through to this evening’s 200m semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in the Sportarena, Budapest, after placing second in his first round heat this morning.

PAUL BRIZZEL walked away from the Stade de France with a broad smile last night after he had posted his A standard for next year’s Olympics.

ON a day when controversy threatened to take over, there was double joy for Irish sprinters at the European championships in Munich last night.