Olympic dream is still alive for Marie

IT’S never easy for an athlete to admit they got it wrong, but Marie McCambridge has done so just hours before she goes into action in at the World Indoor Championships which open here today.

McCambridge runs in the heats of the 3,000m this morning and, along with James Nolan in the 1,500m tomorrow, they are the only two Irish athletes who will compete in the middle and long distance events.

That is in contrast to the past when the Irish team was made up of 1,500m or 3,000m runners, with the likes of Marcus and Sonia O'Sullivan of Cork, Frank O'Mara of Limerick and Galway man, Paul Donovan, bringing home an impressive haul of five gold medals and two silver.