Phil Healy: Medals need to go off the table, we need to execute our job

The women’s 4x400m relay collective came here to whispers about their potential for a medal and that talk amplified after yesterday’s semi-final

FINAL-BOUND: Ireland’s Sophie Becker, Phil Healy, Rhasidat Adeleke and Sharlene Mawdsley celebrate. ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

There isn’t a more natural or inherently straightforward sport than running but add a baton into the equation and things can complicate quickly.

Some of athletics’ strongest ever relay squads have lost medals and titles on the back of botched handovers and the Irish men’s 4x100m quartet of Israel Olatunde, Mark Smyth, Colin Doyle and Joseph Ojewumi have their own disaster story to tell after yesterday.