O’Sullivan launches Olympic Odyssey

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN launched her sensational season at the Irish Indoor Championships in the Odyssey Arena, Belfast last February and she will be hoping for more of the same when she returns there in less than two months to launch her the build-up to the Olympics.

The Athletic Association of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Athletic Federation will join forces again to promote another rare All-Ireland event, with the world championships silver medallist and her fellow Olympians in action.

They include Paul Brizzel, who qualified for Athens by posting an A standard in the 200m at the World Championships in Paris in August, as well as Belfast man, Paul McKee, who won a bronze medal in the 400m at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last March.