O’Sullivan taking one step at a time

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN is back in full training but the world silver medallist has resigned herself to the fact that she won’t run at the world championships in Helsinki in August.

Olive Loughnane will spearhead the Irish challenge at Sunday’s Waterford Crystal Dublin Grand Prix of Race Walking in the absence of O’Sullivan. The women’s 20k will see Portugal’s Maribel Goncalves and Christine Guinaudeau from France lining up alongside Loughnane.

“Obviously I would like to be one of those competitors,” Gillian O’Sullivan admitted. “But I have to accept the fact that I can’t rush things.”