Sonia dressed to impress

SONIA O'SULLIVAN admitted yesterday that she made a mistake running in Gateshead last week - and pledged to return to her winning ways tomorrow in the BUPA Cork City Sports.

O'Sullivan's legion of fans took a sharp intake of breath when O'Sullivan trailed in 10th at the Gateshead meet 1,500m, but the Cobh woman insisted yesterday she wasn't bothered by the performance.

"Maybe I should not have run that race," she said. "I went into it without really thinking too much about it. Originally there had been a 3,000m on the programme but they dropped it in favour of a 10,000m so I decided to run the 1,500m late.