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Galway’s two Olympic hopefuls did not enjoy the best results in this year World Athletic Championships in South Korea.

NUI Galway men’s basketball and senior rowing teams have jointly won the college’s team of the year award for 2011.

Ireland's Olive Loughnane with her husband Martin Corkery, left, and fellow race walker Robert Heffernan, after pulling out of the Women's 20k Walk final through illness at the 20th European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Loughrea race walker Olive Loughnane has joined forces with Cancer Care West to participate in the Dublin Women’s Mini Marathon along with the 40,000 other women set to partake in the event.

Celebrated camogie duo Angela and Ann Downey received the Lifetime Achievement Award for their inter-county careers at The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2009 awards during the week at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin.

There are just 24 hours to go before the fireworks are lit and the Beijing Olympics gets underway, propelling us into three weeks of wonder, amazement and wondering where they got those drugs from.

Galway’s Olympic athlete, Olive Loughnane, has scooped The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council ‘Sportswoman of the Month Award’ for August after her superb performance in the 20k walk at the Beijing Olympics.

Kilkenny City Harriers man, Brian Maher, had a useful workout at the Adidas Frank Duffy 10 Mile Road Race in the Phoenix Park on Saturday last. Competing over the hilly course and coping with a strong gusty wind made the running difficult and rendered time comparisons irrelevant. Maher performed well and coming home in third place he was the first of the Irish runners to cross the finish line.

This weekend Loughrea hosts a special athletic event as part of the athletic club's 40th anniversary celebrations.

The C& C Cellular Mayo AC Open Road League continues on Sunday October 12 with race seven of the nine race series. This four-miler takes place at Ballina and is a one lap course starting near the track at Beleek Park, going out via 'Dunnes' to join the 10k route on the Killala road, turning right and across to rejoin Beleek Park, finishing close to the track. The 'Terry Fox' run takes place annually at venues all over the world in support of the Terry Fox Foundation which raises funds for Cancer Research in memory of a brave young Canadian. Terry Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 18, and had to have his right leg amputated above the knee in 1977. While in hospital , Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. The legacy of this heroic Canadian is that, to date, more than $400 million has been raised worldwide in his name.