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Rhasidat Adeleke with her coach Edrick Floreal<\/p>\n
Rhasidat Adeleke\u2019s coach Edrick Floreal has addressed speculation surrounding the Dubliner\u2019s withdrawal from the upcoming World Championships, telling the Irish Independent that she withdrew from the event in Tokyo simply due to injury.<\/p>\n
In an Instagram post on Monday night, Adeleke revealed that she would miss out on the championships as \u201clingering injuries and continuous setbacks made it increasingly difficult to train and perform at the level I expect from myself\u201d, adding: \u201cFollowing yet another recent roadblock, I\u2019m saddened to share that I\u2019m unable to finish out this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old did not specify what injuries she had dealt with this year, and there was significant speculation online in the days after about whether there was more to the story.<\/p>\n
In a column for The Irish Times, former world champion Sonia O\u2019Sullivan wrote that Adeleke was \u201cnot being entirely open or honest\u201d and that she thought the Dubliner had made \u201cbad decisions\u201d this year.<\/p>\n
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Sonia O’Sullivan. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan suggested that Adeleke could have gone to Tokyo for the relays but added that \u201cmaybe people are telling her she\u2019s better than the relay\u201d. She wrote that it was \u201cpossible it\u2019s more of a mental issue than anything physical\u201d.<\/p>\n
When told of the speculation in Ireland surrounding Adeleke\u2019s withdrawal from Tokyo, Floreal \u2013 who has coached her since 2021 at the University of Texas \u2013 offered a concise response. \u201cShe is honestly injured and cannot compete at a world class level,\u201d he wrote in a text message.<\/p>\n
Adeleke\u2019s last race came just over a month ago, when she finished fourth over 200m at the London Diamond League in 22.52, which was a little down on her Irish record of 22.34.<\/p>\n
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Rhasidat Adeleke with her coach Edrick Floreal<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds – August 22nd <\/p>\n
In her specialist 400m event, the Dubliner had been well down on her national record of 49.07 during the season, clocking 51.33 in her most recent outing at last month\u2019s Eugene Diamond League, while her season\u2019s best of 50.42 from Oslo in June ranks her 26th in the world.<\/p>\n
Back in May, Adeleke had lined up for Ireland at the World Relays in China, helping both the mixed and women\u2019s 4x400m teams to secure qualification for the World Championships in Tokyo, which run from September 13-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhasidat Adeleke with her coach Edrick Floreal Rhasidat Adeleke\u2019s coach Edrick Floreal has addressed speculation surrounding the Dubliner\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[4632,18,19,17,8302,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-16506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cathal-dennehy","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rhasidat-adeleke","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}