Cathal Dennehy: Extra speed endurance the final piece in Adeleke's brilliant future

The good thing? Speed endurance is a trainable asset, far more so than raw speed.

PAIN WILL FUEL FUTURE: Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke will use her fourth place as fuel for future. Picture: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Oh, this one hurt. In the legs, for sure. But more so in the mind.

Fourth place is an awful, unwanted, pig-ignorant intruder that so often barges its way into the presence of those least deserving. Those who’ve ticked every box imaginable to avoid it and to earn the prize their talent and work and years of ascetic discipline truly warrants.