Athletics: Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan will assess her track form before deciding whether to compete in Gothenburg at this summer's European Championships.
It would be a fifth successive appearance at the championships for the 36-year-old, who was forced to pull out of last month's Commonwealth Games due to a hamstring injury. O'Sullivan, who holds dual nationality, would have competed for Australia in Melbourne.
She is still recovering from the hamstring injury, but is eager to compete in the Swedish city where she made her global breakthrough with a 5,000metres gold medal at the 1995 World Championships.
However much will depend on her form in the run-up to the August event.
"I'm not sure at the moment, but if I can get myself fitter and do a few more races, I might make it," said O'Sullivan.
She joined fun runners at Sunday's Great Ireland Run in Dublin and declared: "I've no definite plans yet and I'll be starting my summer preparations from scratch."
O'Sullivan has a marvellous pedigree in past European Championships, having won gold over 5,000m in 1994 in Helsinki, and a golden double four years later over 5,000m and 10,000m in Budapest.
She was a runner-up to Paula Radcliffe in Munich at 10,000m four years ago, and also a second-placed finisher in the 5,000m, and insists she still has a healthy appetite for competition.
"I need to be patient, get my confidence back and find new evidence I can run on the track," said O'Sullivan. "We'll see how it goes, but if the track is ruled out, I might, having done two already this year, do all of the Great Run events, including the Ethiopian Run."
That decision would see her competing in Edinburgh on May 7th over 10 kilometres and a fortnight later over the same distance at the Bupa Great Manchester Run which she won two years ago.
Then O'Sullivan would seek to regain the Great North Run half-marathon title on October 1st and challenge again for victory three weeks later in the Great South Run, where four years ago she set what was then a world record for the 10-mile distance.
The Great Ethiopian Run is scheduled for Addis Ababa in November.