Robert Denmead

The International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport. Read: olympics.com/ioc/news/inter…

Draw is out for Mark English's 800m semi-final tomorrow and it's as good as he could hope for. Top two to go through. Huge, huge chance to make his first global final.

@JoshCox @d9monti @Annie_Rodenfels @usatf @MammothTC @SalomonRunning @ASICSamerica Fair play to your athletes

Our agency had the second and third-place finishers at the USATF Half Marathon Championships yesterday, Carrie Ellwood and Annie Rodenfels, respectively. I am gutted for the athletes impacted by the on-course mishap and for the Atlanta Track Club team. I also understand the precarious position this places USATF, given their published selection criteria for the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen this September. The USATF selection procedures state that the top three finishers at the National Championships will earn automatic selection to the World Championships, with one additional at-large spot going to the top-ranked athlete in the World Athletics global rankings (full criteria below). Should any athlete on the podium decline, USATF will then fill those spots by order of finish, up to the fifth position. Earlier today, I had conversations with both Carrie and Annie. Both athletes prefer that the rightful team of Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, and Ednah Kurgat be named to the team representing the Stars & Stripes, as it was a foregone conclusion that they had the team spots locked up, given their lead and proximity to the finish. I’ve had conversations with USATF today as well and understand by selecting those three they would be going against their selection criteria, as Jess (ninth), Emma (twelfth), and Ednah (thirteenth) finished outside the top-five designation. There is the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. The spirit of the selection criteria is to send the strongest possible team to the global championships, that spirit should win out here. Doing the right thing matters, and as a former athlete who has been on both sides of lead vehicle snafus—as the beneficiary (New Haven, 2000), and as the punished (Air Force Marathon 13.1, 2011)—I understand what the athletes are going through now. This is an opportunity for USATF to name Jess, Emma, and Ednah to Team USA. Should any of them decline, Carrie and Annie would happily step in, be ready roll, and do our country proud. 🇺🇸 I want to thank USATF for making this such a priority at this time. They're working hard on a solution, and I'm sure we’ll have one in short order. (Photo: Annie and Carrie in a gratuitous post-race doping control shot #CleanSport)

@DavidGillick All good David. Hope you, Charlotte and the kids are keeping well. Best wishes for a Happy Christmas 🎄☃️.

@RobDenmead Thanks Rob 🙏 hope you’re keeping well!!

Lots of great insights into the life of a world class 400m athlete in @DavidGillick's book The Race. It's well worth a read for any aspiring international athlete or coach.

@gregallenRTE It would be good for the sport to see any athlete who gets a 2 year (or longer) ban for doping having all their results and records from the previous year DQ'd.

Chepng’etich holds a world record which could remain for decades, just like other suspicious records on the books from the 1980s. Unlike those old scars, this is a huge open fresh wound of a record. Can there not be a mechanism put in place to strip records from doping offenders?

@paddybagger @Eamonn_Christie Exactly

@RobDenmead @Eamonn_Christie Absolutely. The idea of a centralised pool of professional coaches disincentives coach development, and it’s the coaches who have poured their heart & soul (and money) into coaching these athletes since their teens who should be rewarded . They are the bedrock of Irish athletics

Coach funding has long been a thorny issue in Irish athletics, which still lags far behind its international rivals in this area – even while its athletes make up significant ground on the track. But a €600K Sport Ireland fund is aiming to change that. irishexaminer.com/sport/otherspo…

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Excellent run from Michael Murphy (Tullamore Harriers) in the Morton Games Albie Thomas 5,000m. First time under 14 mins with a 12 second PB of 13:54.85

@Cathal_Dennehy Congratulations Mark. Great run!👏👏👏

1:43.92 for Mark English to smash his Irish record yet again. Came from well behind with 100 to go to take victory at the FBK Games in Hengelo. Super run.

Well done to Michael Murphy (Tullamore Harriers) on running a new PB of 14:06.38 in the 5,000m at the Bryan Clay Invitational T&F meet in Azusa, California yesterday. Super running from an athlete who continues to improve with every race.

Wavelights? For a championship?! European Athletics announces that, for the first time ever, it will be using wavelight pacing technology for the 2025 European Indoor Championships. “We’re the first championship to use wavelight in a competitive setting,” said TIG Sports & Events director Noor Van der Lugt. “European Athletics approved its use, and now it’s set to be a game-changer.”

@Lizmccolgan Ignore them. They haven't a clue when it comes to distance runners.

Stop the abusive online comments on women athletes appearances

@gregallenRTE Thanks Greg. The fiver is in the post! 😄

And if you hadn’t noticed, that is Louise Shanahan’s dad Ray in the Leevale singlet racing on the old compacted soil track in the original indoor facility in Ireland in Nenagh. Congrats to Louise, who today impressively won the 2025 Women’s 800m title, her 7th National track gold

¿Podré coger un tren desde Aragón a las 23.30 horas hasta Valencia Sud el jueves por la noche después del partido de Copa del Rey en la Mestalla?

@fintanreilly @DavidMatthews2 @sportireland @irishathletics @FeidhlimKelly Apart from 3 of them @fintanreilly

@RobDenmead @DavidMatthews2 @sportireland @irishathletics Full field coached by @FeidhlimKelly. Great to be able to put races on for coaches like this. Well done @DavidMatthews2. I got one into the race though and ran a couple of 10th of a sec faster than I’d expected 😂

Ignacio Fontes 🇪🇸 7.49.42 Sean Tobin 🇮🇪 7.49.76 Michal Rozmys 🇵🇱 8.04.23 Men’s 3000m Track & Field Live -DUBLIN @sportireland & @irishathletics BOOM!