Power set for late recall for Italian shot

MARK CHRISTIE, winner of the national senior inter-counties title on Sunday in Dungarvan, has opted to compete in the Under-23 race at the European cross-country championships in Italy on Sunday week and Seamus Power, nine-time inter-counties champion, could be the man to replace him on the senior team.

Power dismissed his prospects of making the team for the Europeans when he finished seventh in Dungarvan and walked away with a hamstring injury he had picked up during a training session last Thursday night.

“I am more hopeful now,” he said yesterday after he was named as first reserve on the team and the man likely to replace Mark Christie.