Ankrom appointed high performance director
The Board of AAI approved the appointment of Ankrom to a post which has remained vacant since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. CEO John Foley yesterday admitted that top Irish athletes are well advanced in their preparations for the London Games in 2012 but is satisfied that the American will fit seamlessly into the existing system.
Foley said: “Our top athletes have their programmes in place and our role will be to support those programmes financially and in every way we can. We are talking about the likes of Olive Loughnane, Robert Heffernan, David Gillick, Derval O’Rourke, Paul Hession, who I know have their programmes in place. But we must have the right procedures in place to support them particularly in the area of sports science and medicine.
