Sonia may have shot at Beijing marathon

SONIA O’SULLIVAN is not ruling out a crack at the marathon at next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

That’s eight years after winning her silver medal in the 5,000m in Sydney and four years after her Olympic dream was shattered in the intense heat of Athens.

Since then she launched her winding down programme, thousands joining her in Dublin’s Phoenix Park for what was to be her last major road race in Ireland.