Thomas Barr: 'The shackles are off, I am loving the freedom'

If Barr has stopped running then he hasn’t stopped moving.

Olympian Thomas Barr with students from St Laurence's Catholic National School during the Dare to Believe Olympic Schools Programme at St Laurence's Catholic National School in Kildare. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Thomas Barr wasn’t sure how he would feel as he sat down to watch last weekend’s World Relays in Guangzhou. It wasn’t long past a year since he had been part of a mixed 4x400 Irish quartet that earned bronze at the 2024 version in the Bahamas.

The 12 months since have passed by in a blur.