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48.34 anchor from Sharlene Mawdsley to qualify the 🇮🇪Irish women's 4x400m for the world championships #WorldRelays

“Je ne suis pas capable de faire 1% de ce qu’il fait” Gilbert Dujardin-Delacour est le seul à sauter dans la catégorie des plus de 85 ans aux championnats de France. Pour l’émission Sport, etc, Mattéo Rolet s’est rendu à l’un de ses entraînements.

L'ENTRÉE SUR LE TERRAIN D'HOLLIE DAVIDSON 🤩 Première femme à arbitrer un match du TOP 14, elle officie la rencontre entre Clermont et Lyon 🙌 #ASMLOU

𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍!!!🙌 It's BRONZE for Kate O'Connor who continues her remarkable medal-winning-run at major championships🤩 The first Irishwoman to win two World Indoor medals👏Outstanding!!!! ⏱️2:10.26 PB over 800m for a new 4839 National Record🤯 #IrishAthletics | #WorldIndoorChamps | #trailblazer | @ask123ie @sportireland

We lost a legend this week. Olympic Gold medalist Ron Delany passed away at 91. The summer before the 1956 Olympics, Delany ran a 4:20 mile at a meet in Dublin. Then, he got spiked badly in Paris and could barely race the rest of the season. The press said he was burnt out. The Olympic Council only confirmed his selection at the last possible moment. As he was struggling with his form, John Landy pulled him aside. He told him he looked strained, that his shoulders were too tense and he needed to relax. Landy was the Olympic favorite, the 2nd man under 4. The man he'd have to beat in Melbourne gave him the technical cue that would help unlock the run of his life. Arriving at the Melbourne Olympics as an afterthought, he meets the British trio of 1500m stars in the village. They want to do a friendly breakdown of the field. Who's going to do well? Delany: "I'm going to win." They looked at him like he was out of his mind. Why was he so sure? In his last training session before Melbourne, coach Brutus Hamilton pulled a piece of twine out of his pocket. Strung it across the track and had Delany run through it, arms spread wide, like a finish line celebration. Then he said: "Now, son, we have practised everything." They'd rehearsed winning, including winning. In an era where there were no sports psychologist, Delany had a pre-race protocol. Two hours out, he'd deliberately turn on the nerves. He'd let the anxiety build, get the adrenaline flowing. Then an hour before, he flipped the switch. Become what he called "the cold, calculated, tactician." It was a threat-to-challenge conversion decades before we had a name for it. On December 1st, 1956, there were 120,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a field that was one of the best in history. At the bell, Delany was tenth. Six meters off the lead. Then he started to move. He passed Landy with 180 to go. And closed his final 200 in 25.6, to break the Olympic record by four seconds. "There is no pain...Into the home stretch and I feel the strength, as if running on air... legs flowing so easily, breathing so consistent and effortless, my mind so relaxed and concentrated." After he crossed the line, Delany dropped to his knees in prayer. Landy, the favorite who'd helped fix his form months earlier and just lost, "was the first over me — which is a great tribute to the closeness of sportsmanship. He thought I'd collapsed, sees my face, and sees I'm not even winded." After the race, Delany sent a telegram to his first coach, Jack Sweeney, back in Dublin. Three words: "We did it Jack." He was 21, 10,000 miles from home, had just won the Olympic gold medal. And his first instinct was to credit the man who taught him to race. RIP Ronnie.

@rugbyexpansion Their schools rugby is insanely good! Lots on YouTube.

Sri Lanka probably one of the more obscure rugby nations but they are capable of getting some very respectable crowds and, as can be seen in these clips, really passionate too!

@chelsealeite nytimes.com/athletic/61288… Really interesting piece.

If you’re Canadian and you have a son, you MUST put him in goalie training. Right now. We have a goalie epidemic on our hands here.

@rpetty80 Top notch

Something wicked this way scrums

@will_owen9 It's so good to see him getting a run and playing well. Someone needs to get Richie Murphy a contract extension/bonus/whatever he wants: big Stu, Baloucoune, Nick Timoney all playing so well this weather.

How fucking good is Bob Baloucoune

@thepaulwilliams Are they letting the public vote now? Is that what the four candidates appearing on screen is about?

If Stuart Mccloskey doesn't win player of the match I'll burn down ITV headquarters.

@rugbyitalia96 3rd place for Italy this year.

Can’t wait to play England next week. 2026 is the year. Imagine. Borthwick’s men will not be looking forward to that trip to Rome…

@Ringo26 😆

Crowley has no patience for passing props. #ENGvIRE

@VMSportIE no interviews with Sami Bishti or Josh Neill!?

You got to give lots of credit to Eileen Gu for responding brilliantly back to the reporter with great confidence. She looked him in the eye said that was a "ridiculous perspective" without any hesitation or fear. 😁

Para las interesadas, Gabriella Papadakis y Madison Hubbell (medallistas olímpicas en danza sobre hielo) llevaron a cabo este proyecto para promover la visibilidad e inclusión de parejas del mismo sexo en el patinaje artístico competitivo internacional 🤍

@Tsmith47 @ajguckian Where does the OP mention starting at 14!? The whole point is to play lots of different sports, which will **include** the one the athlete may end up specialising in. Read the post before you jump in.

@OS134 @ajguckian There aren't too many gymnasts I can think of who started at 14 and reached the top level. There aren't too many ⚽️ or⚾️players who start at 14 and reach the top level. Those examples exists in cyclists, rowers, rugby, etc where athleticism/genetics > skill

Oddly no link to the data. Outside of the US, I feel pretty confident there aren’t a ton of high level multi sport athletes. Show me the Argentinian who played multiple sports through age 12.

@ajguckian @Tsmith47 You clearly have very little knowledge of child movement skill acquisition, and hyperbole does not serve your arguement. As someone who works with teens (some who have gone on to be international superstars), I can tell you a broad base is key.

@Tsmith47 @OS134 The 1% of the 1% can absolutely pick certain sports later and and still be great. It’s why they are the literal best. Trying to use them as a reason little Timmy needs to play 10 different sports to be his best is going to make it so little Timmy barely plays his sport in HS.

@pjvazel @education_gouv @Sports_gouv en moyenne? Je teste des garçons de 12 à 14 ans et le meilleur temps que j'aie jamais vu au 40 m est de 5,16 secondes.

@OS134 @education_gouv @Sports_gouv L’étude ne donne pas les âges, juste la classe

🫨 Aptitudes physiques des sixièmes @education_gouv @Sports_gouv : La seule bonne nouvelle de cette étude, c’est qu’on a détecté une potentielle future championne olympique !!! 4.0 au 30m et 2.50 au SLJ, retrouvez-moi cette enfant et je reprends le coaching 😂