O’Sullivan struggling to make Morton meet

SONIA O’SULLIVAN could miss next weekend’s Woodies DIY national senior track and field championships with a foot problem that has been bothering her for some weeks now.

The weekend before last she was forced to pull up in the 5,000m at the AAA championships in Manchester when the pain became quite severe.

"I have had various people look at it but I am not too sure what the problem is," she said yesterday. "I can run in a straight line but I can't run on the track. It only affects me when I run around corners and there are a lot of bends in a 5,000m race."