“I’ve a feeling she’ll have a PB in the shot put, there’s deffo room for improvement there technique-wise.”She wasn’t wrong. The long jump, though, started iffily, an X beside her name after her first attempt, which we took as a bad thing. “She doesn’t want to end up with a third eyeballs effort,” our commentator said as she wound up for her second try. The gist: O’Connor could win gold, silver, bronze or nothing at all after the final event, the 800m. That O’Connor wore a bit of a “meh” expression after taking bronze was a fair indication of the loftiness of her own demands on herself after last year’s rather wondrous exploits.

Source: The Irish Times March 23, 2026 05:07 UTC