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Will Poland top the medal table again in Torun 2021?
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Poland has emerged as a tour de force on the European stage over the last decade and the host nation will be aiming to top the medal table at the Toruń 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships for the third edition in succession from 4-7 March.
A mighty Polish team won seven gold medals in Belgrade 2017 before five gold medals sufficed for top spot in the standings in Glasgow 2019. And the strength in the Polish team was on display again later that year at the European Athletics Team Championships in Bydgoszcz – just 50 kilometres away from Toruń – where the Poles defeated the traditional athletics superpowers for their maiden title.
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Much has been made of the size of the 23-strong Irish team which will compete over the four days of the upcoming European Indoor Championships in Torun this weekend, but ultimately the currency of success is medals and winning even one from four days of competition looks a daunting task.
The Ireland team, however, has had a long and happy relationship with the most accessible championship for its athletes who earned two podium successes from the last staging in 2019.
Mark English, the bronze medallist over 800 metres in Glasgow last time out, returns to a championship which has seen him also win silver in Prague back in 2015.
The unstoppable rise of the super shoe - and how it caused mayhem in athletics
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By the start of 2020, it was evident something was afoot. By World Athletics president Seb Coe’s admission, the governing body had “been chasing the horse around the paddock” in failing to react quickly enough to developments in road-running shoes and it was too late.
Nike’s technological innovations had changed the marathon landscape forever and no elite runner would ever take the start line again without some combination of carbon fibre and hyper-responsive foam under the soles of their feet. The horse had bolted.