{"id":18142,"date":"2025-09-13T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:15:08","slug":"i-just-thought-i-was-gone-st-darragh-mcelhinney-back-to-his-best-as-he-savours-second-shot-with-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18142\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just thought I was gone s**t\u2019 \u2013 Darragh McElhinney back to his best as he savours second shot with Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darragh McElhinney during the official open training session ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo by Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aa2bf4fa-732a-4216-b6b8-599a712d3f44.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Darragh McElhinney during the official open training session ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo by Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He didn\u2019t fare well as a spectator. For Darragh McElhinney, no matter how a race goes, it\u2019s always best experienced on the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But during the 2024 Olympics in Paris, he was consigned to watch from afar \u2013 his form abandoning him over the previous year for a reason he still doesn\u2019t fully understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darragh McElhinney during the official open training session ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16452,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cathal-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}