Sport Journalist
Ireland's largest ever team for a major indoor championship will travel to Poland next week for the European Indoors, with 2019 medallists Mark English and Ciara Mageean carrying some of the best hopes of a medal among the 24-strong squad.
English is currently ranked seventh in Europe over 800 metres but he will bring vast experience to the task of potentially racing three-hard races in three days.
It's a refined skill to reach a six-man final in such a condensed schedule but his European Indoor medals from 2015 and 2019 are proof of his expertise in gauging how to put himself in position to challenge for a position on the rostrum.