Medals may be elusive as Irish take on world

There won’t be any medals, that’s for sure, and we’re unlikely to see any Irish athlete make a final, but that’s not to say we should stick a skewer in the IAAF World Indoor Championships before they’ve even begun.

World Indoor Championships

Because at this level, in an event gathering 632 athletes from 144 countries, there’s success to be found in defeat, if you look hard enough. The four-day championship gets out of the blocks tonight at Arena Birmingham, where the high jump finals take place against a backdrop of a cracking women’s 3000m final.