{"id":35717,"date":"2025-09-22T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:19:10","slug":"cathal-dennehy-irish-athletics-cant-be-allowed-to-slide-backwards-again-after-roaring-success-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35717\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathal Dennehy: Irish athletics can\u2019t be allowed to slide backwards again after roaring success in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nDire showing at London 2017 shows how far we have come\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate O'Connor poses for a portrait with her women's heptathlon silver medal during day nine of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo: Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/da8bd5f6-a9f2-4ec4-86be-9f4332948533.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)\">Kate O&#8217;Connor poses for a portrait with her women&#8217;s heptathlon silver medal during day nine of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo: 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)\">There are many ways to break down what unfolded in Tokyo over the last nine days, but one of the best is to go back in time \u2013 to a World Championships that was much closer to home.<\/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)\">London 2017 was a great edition of the sport\u2019s showpiece event. Just not for the Irish. And a flick back through the results shows the gargantuan distance Irish athletics has travelled in the last eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dire showing at London 2017 shows how far we have come Kate O&#8217;Connor poses for a portrait with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-35717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717","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=35717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}