"Not long after her victory at the NCAA Championships in June, the 23-year-old missed a block of training due to illness, and things went from bad to worse in July when she was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her tibia, which kept her sidelined for about three weeks. She clocked a pedestrian 2:11 for 800m in her final tune-up race which left her full of doubt."
"She needed a top-six finish to advance to Sunday's 1500m semi-finals, and the University of Washington graduate played a patient game in her heat, tracking the leading six. She got trapped in a box on the final bend and needed to utilise her vast range of gears in the last 100m, moving from seventh to sixth in the dying strides and crashing to the track to secure the final automatic spot in 4:02.12."
Ciara Healy and Sophie O'Sullivan advanced in the 1500m at Japan National Stadium, lifting Irish spirits after the mixed 4x400m failed to reach the final earlier. Healy showed season-long consistency. O'Sullivan faced illness and a tibial stress fracture that sidelined her for about three weeks after her NCAA win. A 2:11 800m tune-up left her doubtful. She needed a top-six finish, ran a patient race tracking the leaders, got boxed on the final bend, then moved from seventh to sixth in the last 100m and dived across the line in 4:02.12 to qualify.
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