CIARA MAGEEAN was brought to tears during yesterday’s medal ceremony. The Portaferry ace, 32, was presented with her gold medal for winning Sunday’s 1500m final . And she said: “I was very emotional hearing all the Irish sing Amhrán na bhFiann as I was standing up there.
"It was giving me chills and tears in my eyes. It was such a beautiful moment. “I feel like it’s all a blur.
This is a special moment that will live on for a long time.” And after it emerged that Mageean had a flight home booked for yesterday morning — BEFORE the medal ceremony — she added: “I’ll be honest. "I didn’t check to see when the ceremony would be.
“Thankfully my boyfriend changed the flight for me and this medal might have been sent home in an envelope had the flight not been changed. "I think I earned that extra flight.” Meanwhile, Rhasidat Adeleke smashed the Irish record to win a European silver medal last night.
The Tallaght star, 21, was dramatically pipped to 400m gold by Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek in Rome. Kaczmarek clocked a time of 48.98 — the fastest time in the world this year — while Adeleke recorded 49.
07 to shave 0.13 off her previous personal best and win her first senior individual medal. Adeleke told RTÉ : “When I crossed the line and realised that I came second, I was a bit devastated.
“I really wanted it but as my coach said, we’ve been training through this event. “To even run a PB in my first 400m competition of the year . .
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