After a difficult season in 2023, the 21-year-old Irish 100m record holder is still dreaming of Paris
After a difficult season in 2023, the 21-year-old Irish 100m record holder is still dreaming of the Olympic Games in ParisIreland’s Israel Olatunde is working on ways to recapture the form that brought him and Ireland glory in 2022. after the race. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inphothere is no lasting fear or regret about his struggle to repeat the smash-hit season of 2022.
“I’m only human, and when things aren’t going your way, you do get frustrated,” he says. “But I don’t want to waste my time on that, I have to realise that this is what I signed up for, so I’m on this career for the long run, hopefully.Ireland’s Stephen Scullion sees Olympic marathon hopes end after 13th-place finish in London“Being upset about where things are at the moment isn’t going to help me run any faster, so I have to look towards the light.
Olatunde is speaking from his current training base in Clermont, one of the US national sprint centres 35km west of Orlando, enjoying the perfect weather and training environment with his coach Daniel Kilgallon and five other members of the sprint group at Tallaght Athletics Club. “I know those times aren’t going to set the world on fire. But for me, personally, that was a big step forward, and I was really happy for myself. We’re not scared to make mistakes. There are some things we’re working on that will definitely pay off later in the season.”
“I need to be in the top 56 , or run under 10 seconds. I’m a little bit off the mark in both those aspects, but I’ve surprised myself in the past, surprised the world in the past, so why not this year again?
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