Daly injury huge blow to Irish medal hopes

IRELAND’S medal hopes in the 4 x 400m relay at the European championships in Gothenburg in a months time suffered a severe setback at the weekend when Rob Daly, who also has an individual qualifying standard, tore a calf muscle at the BUPA Cork City Sports.

“It is not looking good at all,” his coach, Paddy Fay, admitted yesterday. “He just cannot put any weight on it at the moment so I would say the national championships are out.”

He pulled up in pain at The Mardyke on Saturday. He had felt a twinge earlier in the race but obviously left it too late.