City Sports bosses reschedule meeting to ease US clash fears

THE date for next year’s Cork City Sports has been put back to accommodate the US Olympic trials, the Russian championships and the Caribbean countries whose championships coincide with the US championships.

At the recent Congress and Calendar Meeting in Malta, the European Athletic Association approved July 12 as the date for what will be the 57th edition of Ireland’s only international athletics meeting, which has been ranked the third-best organised permit meeting in Europe.

“Normally we hold the event on the last Saturday of June but this year we decided to put it back to accommodate those athletes,” City Sports chairman, Dick Hodgins, said.