O’Rourke: Really important to be in final

DERVAL O’ROURKE has not been at her best this season but expect her to put all those disappointments behind her when she contests the heats of the women’s 100m hurdles tomorrow morning (2.20am Irish time).

Her preparations have been almost uninterrupted and she ran her fastest time outside of a championship race when she clocked 12.84 secs to post her Olympic and world championship “A” standard at Le Chaux De Fonds in just her third race of the season.

But, while she has been flying in training, she has not been putting it all together and had a disastrous run in the Samsumg Diamond League in Crystal Palace the day before she came back to win her ninth Irish senior title.