The Irish runner has been down a lonesome road at times, enough times to realise her career is still a long way from the finish
Ireland’s Ciara Mageean celebrates winning the women’s 1,500m final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Stadio Olympico, Rome. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
At some point towards the end of our conversation Mageean rolled up her right sleeve to reveal the Olympic rings discreetly tattooed down her lower arm, a reminder not just of what was meant to come in Paris this summer, but what she’s already been through.Sonia O’Sullivan: When you watch the best, you soon see coaching always comes back to the basics
“And my approach is different now. I have some unfinished business in that I just want to go and perform at the best of my ability. I’ll do everything I can to do that, give myself every fighting chance, same as I did for the World Championships this year.” Growing up in Portaferry, at the tip of the Ards Peninsula, she’d begin her school days with an 8.15 ferry trip across Strangford Lough to catch the bus to Assumption Grammar, Ballynahinch. There were tough lessons early on too; in October 2008 she travelled to Pune, India, for her first major international event, the Commonwealth Youth Games. Fancied to medal in the 800m, Mageean ended up fifth, the entire field stunned by the South African winner named Caster Semenya.
There is talk Mageean may move back to Ireland, make a complete change from her coaching set-up in Manchester in recent years, and Kiernan’s wise old advice about having longer in the sport still rings true.
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