AAI decision good news for Carroll

MARK CARROLL will welcome the news that the AAI have decided to try to persuade the Olympic Council of Ireland to abandon their July 3 deadline for Olympic qualification.

At last weekend’s Annual Congress in Donegal it was unanimously agreed that the July 3 deadline was not realistic and delegates instructed International Secretary, Liam Hennessy, to go back to the OCI and seek an extension, possibly bringing it into line with the IAAF deadline which is late July.

Mark Carroll, who has his sights on a qualifying standard at 10,000m, has been critical of the OCI deadline for some time describing it as a barrier to athletes.