Tipperary athlete will again put her hand up to anchor both relays in Paris, as well as running the individual 400m
Sharlene Mawdsley on finally realising her Olympic dream: 'Until I got that email, I didn’t believe I was going.' Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfilewas just off a plane at Dublin Airport on Thursday morning when an email popped up on her phone confirming her selection for the. Despite effectively qualifying almost two months ago when running inside the automatic time for the 400m, she refused to engage in any talk about it. Not until everything was signed off.
“It’s really special now to have the gear on, to know I’ll be an Olympian in two weeks’ time is insane.”Johnny Watterson: Aidan Walsh knows that in dreamland, athletes must mind how they goMawdsley was indeed left off the Irish athletics team for Tokyo, despite helping the mixed 4x400m relay team qualify.
“I haven’t even looked at the schedule. I just refused to do anything, didn’t want to jinx it, or look too far ahead. But if I can compete in three events, I can look back on that in years to come and tell my kids, ‘Please God I did this, so you can too’.” The women’s 400m relay heats take place the following Friday, with the final on the Saturday, the same day Mawdsley turns 26. Having run five races in six days at the European Championships in Rome last month, anchoring the mixed relay to gold, and the women’s relay to silver, she understands well the demands and she’s prepared to rise to them again.
“But to be able to push forward now and actually get ready for the Olympics is so, so exciting. I promised myself after Tokyo I would be there individually, to run under 50.95 . I wasn’t leaving that unturned this year. That was the target, and now it moves on from that, and it’s great to have Rhasidat, Sophie and myself in the individual 400m, then we move on to the relay as well.”
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