Ó Lionáird seeks home comfort

Ciarán Ó Lionáird will turn to his home track and the support of the home crowd at the CIT Stadium in Bishopstown this evening (6.30pm) to launch the final phase of his Olympic build-up in the featured Cork City Sports Cork Airport Mile.

It was at Cork City Sports last year he turned his athletics career around with an encouraging performance in the 1,500, followed by a sub-four mile at the Morton Meet in Santry and then the astonishing 3:34.46 1,500m in Oodegem, Belgium, which qualified him for the World Championships in Daegu where he made the final as well as the Olympic Games.

Since then he ran a 3:54.76 mile at the USA Track and Field Indoor Classic and approached the World Indoor Championships with high hopes before they were shattered by an Achilles tendon injury.