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<h3>Captain Marion's big day</h3>
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<p>A lovely end to a fabulous (and busy!) week when the team were invited by our own amazing Marian  to attend her Ladies Captain's Day at Cobh Club Club. The sun shone and Marian laid on a lovely afternoon tea from The Food Club the new eatery at the club and what a gorgeous spread! Thank you Marian for a wonderful day and lots of love from us all.</p>
<h3>Basketball</h3>
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<p>Cobh1 are our U14 3x3 champions at the Limerick Open @TUSMidwestSport, edging out a good Tralee Magic side. Well done to both.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>***Community Visit***</h3>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Eoin and Laura were delighted to visit Gloria's summer art camp.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We spoke about what we as the red cross do and the work we do locally. We then finished with a tour of the ambulance, had a look at the pieces of equipment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We want to say a huge thank you to Gloria and the gang for their generous donation to our ambulance fund. We appreciate it very much.</p>
<p>We also thank you for your very warm welcome.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(65,168,95);">World Championships at Eugene Oregon Amazing Sunday</span></h2>
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<p>&nbsp;The rest of the morning programme was very entertaining especially the high jump in the heptathlon. The morning finished with a cracking 10,000m men's final another new experience for me taking place away from an evening session. The race was a thriller from the get go with a virtual single file formation for the first half of the race and nobody dropped by the halfway mark. Apart from a few,  all wore distinctive brightly coloured yellow shoes. At least 10 were in contention with 1,500m to go but the final dustup did not not happen until the last 800n was left. Three lapped runners caused confusion and must have affected the leader's but the finish saw the pair from Uganda taking gold and bronze, with a Kenyan taking silver. Grant Fisher USA was just edged out of the medals. Then I came back with Clodagh her husband Dave and children Conor and Anica who is a student at university of Oregon finished  her first year and is on roster for track and cross-country. Another daughter Ciaragh is at Washington State university and presently is doing Summer work at the Ovens bar in Cork. After a relaxing afternoon it was back to the track for another fascinating evening athletics. Irish interest focused on Thomas Barr 400m hurdles and Andrew Coscoran in the 1,500. Andrew who had brilliant run the day before had nothing left in tank and faded on the last lap, he needs more experience at this level for back to back championship races. No doubt his dedicated coach Feidhlim Kelly will have taken note and provide the opportunities to correct this for future occasions, for this exciting prospect.</p>
<p>The reminder of the evening saw the women's pole vault reach an exciting conclusion with USA taking first and 2nd, Magoette winning from teammate Morris, who suffered her first loss of the season. There was a like experience in the men's shot putt final. American's took all medals with gold going to Kovacs the defending champion, silver to Crouser and a surprise bronze for Awotunde edging out Walsh of New Zealand.</p>
<p>The final of the 110m hurdles started with controversy, one of the Americas,  Devon Allen was adjudged to have a false start,  the limit is .1 of a second he was .99. It was upheld and since then controversy has been raging. Grant Holloway retained  his title for the USA.</p>
<p>The final event the ladies 100m final saw another clean sweep this time for the colourful Jamaicans.  Gold went to Fraser-Pryce, for the 5th time ,edging Shericka Jackson with Thompson-Herah 3rd. It was a hairaising experience for the captivated audience with the hair does of many colours. On the way out I met Robert Heffernan still on a high after coaching the bronze medallist in the 20k walk  Karlstrom who was disqualified from gold after winning the Irish title a few weeks ago.</p>
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Cobh and great Island news July 17th

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