Barr starting to feel Olympic buzz again

Here we go again. One year out from the Tokyo Olympics, and for Thomas Barr this is when the clock truly starts ticking. It’s close enough to see but not to touch, a destination looming on the horizon, his every athletic act swayed by its magnetic pull.

Barr has never raced in Japan, never even set foot there, and he likely won’t until he sets off in July next year for the Irish holding camp in Fukuroi, about 150 miles west of Tokyo.