SONIA O’SULLIVAN may have to join the exclusive club of women who have run under two hours and 20 minutes if she is to win the New York City Marathon tomorrow.

Olympic 5,000 metres silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan has spent the last week at her 'alma mater' of Villanova University completing preparations for Sunday’s New York City Marathon.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will be the star attraction in Loughrea tomorrow when the Great Ireland Run - a five mile road race - will be sponsored by Bord Fáilte’s International Sports Tourism Initiative and will attract 1,000 runners, joggers and fun runners from Ireland and overseas.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will be back in action in Loughrea on Sunday when the spotlight will be on the Great Ireland Run - an event which she won in 1998 when she was a double world cross-country and European track champion.

WHILE all the other members of the Irish track and field team busied themselves packing and making their final preparations for this week’s European championships the “newest” sensation of the squad, Geraldine Hendricken, had other things on her mind.