Lombard leaves nothing to chance
The Dublin-based Cork athlete will not arrive in Paris until this afternoon - that was planned all along.
Doonan, who coached Catherina McKiernan to her sensational performances in both cross-country and the marathon, is never one to take any chances where his athletes are concerned. “We decided that I should get a hotel with air conditioned rooms as close as possible to the Athletes Village and, fortunately; I was able to do that.” So far it has been a sensational season for the man once regarded as something of a mudlark. But that all changed when he met up with
