O'Sullivan lines up against Dominguez

AS expected, Sonia O’Sullivan and the newly-crowned European 5,000m champion, Marta Dominguez of Spain, will renew rivalry at the Weltklasse in Zurich tonight but Gabriela Szabo has jumped ship and elected to run in the 1,500m race.

Marta Dominguez never finished in front of Sonia O’Sullivan before and it is unlikely that she will ever do so again as the Cobh athlete was the first to admit after Saturday’s race that she had made a major tactical error when she wormed her way to the front with 200m to go.

She was still carrying the affects of Tuesday night’s record breaking run in the 10,000m in her legs which meant that she had little left in reserve for the final 70 metres as the Spaniard fought her way back into the picture and edged clear over the final five metres.