No Fionnuala McCormack as eight-runner Irish team named for World Cross Country Championships
The World Cross Country Championships take place in Belgrade on March 30th.www.irishexaminer.com
This was supposed to be in back in Feb in Croatia but there was hassle with the organising committee so it got taken off them and moved to Belgrade end of March.
It completely fucked the calender, people are starting into their block of training for European outdoors/US Trials or running the last of spring marathons
World cross is the greatest footrace in the world but it'll be a shadow of itself this year.
Apparently Siffan Hassan is running it though. She'll be up against a great crop of Kenyans off not a pile of recovery post Tokyo Agnes Ngetich, Beatrice Chebet and that wan Anyango.