Reigning European indoor 400 metres champion David Gillick could be bound for Moscow as a late addition to the Ireland squad for the World Indoor Athletics Championships.

GARY OWENS, who masterminded the Strategic Plan for athletics, has agreed to act as the independent chairman of the new AAI Board for the next two years, to oversee the implementation of the integration process.

DERVAL O’ROURKE set a new Irish record at 8.02 seconds for second place and an automatic place in the semi-finals of the women’s 60m hurdles on Saturday, but it all ended in disappointment yesterday when she went over on an ankle after clearing the third hurdle.

Athletics Ireland have added a further two athletes to the team for the forthcoming European Indoor Championships in Madrid on March 4-6.

Athletics Ireland has announced its largest ever team for the World Indoor Championships in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham later this month.

THE infamous gear row which raged throughout two Olympic Games and kept Irish athletes out of the last European Youth Olympics could be resolved over the coming months.