Sporting Digest: Athletics

SONIA O'SULLIVAN, Ireland's world 1,500 metres silver medallist, will run the 800m and 1,500m at the European championships in Helsinki in August. O'Sullivan, the best middle-distance runner in the world last year apart from the Chinese, was expected to run the 1,500m and 3,000m. 'I did the last 800 metres in Stuttgart in two minutes 0.2 seconds and I think I could go under two minutes easily if I concentrated on it,' she said.