Heartbreak for Ciara Mageean as torn calf crushes Olympic chances

There was also disappointment for Sarah Healy and Phil Healy

Women’s 1500m Heats, Ireland’s Ciara Mageean

Broken hearts, ailing bodies, anxious minds – for Irish 1500m runners Ciara Mageean and Sarah Healy, the Olympic dream turned into something more like a nightmare in Tokyo this morning, both one and done in their respective heats, both holding viable reasons, not that either wanted them held up as excuses.

For their teammate Phil Healy, there was nothing all that bad about her run in the 200m heats, clocking a season’s best of 23.21 to finish fifth, but nor was there all that much great about it. She knew it, too.