Episode 3015: Rhasidat’s Final Countdown, Too Easy To Dope, Cruyff Nails Giles, Arteta Picks A Pocket Or Two
On Friday evening Rhasidat Adeleke will become the first ever Irish athlete to compete in an Olympics 400m sprint final. Can’t we just enjoy that fact? Well, yes and no.
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Malachy Clerkin and Cathal Dennehy join us to explain the science of 400m fatigue, the dangers of an Olympics Village gradually being over-run with germs, the fears for Rhasidat’s form, her rival coming back from a drugs ban and the maddening drug testing loopholes that still seem far too easy to exploit.
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Away from the track Ken and Johan Cruyff travel back in time to analyse the 1973 FA Cup, in which one John Giles did not impress before zooming back to the present to reveal Mikel Arteta’s latest CRAZY managerial quirk. A quirk which brings out the authoritarian side in Murph.
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