Lombard ‘logic’ rubbish, says O’Sullivan

IRISH running legend Marcus O’Sullivan has dismissed Cathal Lombard’s explanation for choosing to use performance-enhancing drugs.

The four-time Olympian, now men’s track and field head coach at his alma mater Villanova University in Philadelphia, said he found no logic in Lombard’s admission to the Irish Examiner’s athletics correspondent Brendan Mooney that he just wanted to be as competitive as he could and “have an equal chance with everyone else”.

Speaking while on a family holiday in Vermont, O’Sullivan, 43, said of his fellow Corkman: “To give him credit he owned up right away, not that that helps the situation at all, and I’m very saddened by it.