Paul Pollock left disappointed by showing

It wasn’t what he wanted, but that says more about his mentality than his performance. Paul Pollock finished a respectable 32nd in the Olympic marathon yesterday, reaching the finish in Rio’s Sambodromo in 2:16:24.

“I was hoping for top-20,” he said. “I think that was realistic so I’m coming away a bit disappointed.”

When the gun fired at 9.30am yesterday, Pollock started in conservative fashion, passing 10km in 124th of 155 competitors.