Leeside set to offer training outlet for Olympic athletes

AMERICAN athletics chiefs are on the look-out for an Irish base for their Olympic team ahead of the London Olympics in 2012.

“The American athletics team coming to the Cork City Sports have asked us to look out for accommodation where they could base themselves over the next few years in the lead-up to London,” said Tony O’Connell, Cork City Sports PRO yesterday.

“We are talking to other bodies, including Cork City Council, about how we can encourage athletes to take up residence here in the lead-up to the Games. We have the facilities here in Cork – in CIT, the Mardyke and so on – to accommodate them.”