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Mon 08 Aug 2008Irish athletes not in the game
ATHLETICS:THE DANGER of stretching your Olympic ambitions too high is that they can always snap back in your face. Róisín McGettigan discovered that yesterday, when after making such a great effort to make the final of the 3,000-metre steeplechase she found herself tailed off early on and finished next to last.
Her time of 9:55.89 was some 25 seconds outside her best, but worse still, almost a minute behind the 8:58.81 Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova ran to break her own world record and win the gold medal.
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