KILDARE CANOEIST JENNY Egan will compete for the final ticket to the Tokyo Olympics tomorrow after progressing to the K1 200m final in the ‘world’ qualifiers this morning.
The 34-year-old finished third in her semi-final, clocking a time of 43.682 (Sweden’s Moa Wikberg won the semi in 42.737), to reach the final of the global Olympic qualification event in the Russian city of Barnaul.
Egan had earlier finished third in her heat in a time of 45.278.
Jenny Egan into the final of the Olympic Qualifier!! 🇮🇪💪 After a great semi final Jenny will race in tomorrow's final at 8:17 Irish time. With the final Olympic spot up for grabs 🇯🇵 Watch it live tomorrow morning here - https://t.co/4depz318r5 pic.twitter.com/kHReilA6QB
— Canoeing Ireland (@CanoeingIreland) May 20, 2021
The Salmon Leap club woman must win tomorrow’s final if she is to claim for herself and Ireland the last remaining spot at this summer’s Games.
Egan missed out on Tokyo qualification at last week’s European qualifiers in Hungary in both the K1 200m and 500m classifications but will aim to book her seat on the plane at the final time of asking in Siberia, with the decisive event taking place at 8:17am Irish time.
You can watch Egan in the K1 200m final at the following YouTube link.
The Sport Ireland statement is a strange one “he bore no significant fault or negligence”- While I’d doubt he intentionally took the substance it was most definitely negligent not to check with the team nutritionist if the substance was legal or not
Brendan O Sullivan got off lightly. Would the sports council have been so lenient if he was an athlete or cyclist.
No one forced O Sullivan to take the illegal supplement. It was the height of stupidly not to check with the team doctor.
As for Marc O Se to say he was unaware of O Sullivan’s use of an illegal supplement. Did he never ask where’s Brendan?
@Diarmuid: the banned substance was not in a supplement but in a sports drink, similar to Lucozade sport. That’s why he got off so lightly
Kimmage will be all over this like a rash. “Now hang on Joe! This is important!”
@Marks Awarded: he was on the same time as O Se and you’re correct. That’s exactly how it went
OSullivan had no idea what he took, it was in a drink. I believe that.
What I dont believe is Marc O’Se saying he had no idea, thats bullsh!t.
But fair play to the Kerry boys for closing ranks and keeping this quite. Best of luck to anyone who can beat these, that sort of loyalty and respect is hard to beat!!
Imagine if this was Diarmuid Connolly or another Dublin player.. Ud have fools tarnishing they’re All Ireland wins .. If its Kerry its ok just a mistake
Kerry didn’t win an AIl Ireland last year.