O’Rourke plans final hurdleto prepare for Gothenburg

DERVAL O’ROURKE is hoping that one more race followed by some fine tuning will send her to Gothenburg in the shape of her life for the European Track & Field Championships.

Fresh from her new national record (12.85 secs) at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki on Wednesday night, she is hoping for a place in the line-up in Nuremberg on Sunday afternoon.

“Andy Norman has been working on that and we are hopeful,” her coach, Jim Kilty, said last night. “We really feel she needs that one more race because I know that her race in Helsinki was worth 12.78 secs.”