Phil Healy brushes off Covid-hit prep to power into World Indoor semis

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“I even pushed out my departure… because we wanted a tester session on Tuesday and, to be honest, it was crap.” Phil Healy brushes off Covid-hit prep to power into World Indoor semis

Healy: 'We decided we have nothing to lose.' Image: Sasa Pahic Szabo/INPHO Healy: 'We decided we have nothing to lose.' Image: Sasa Pahic Szabo/INPHO PHIL HEALY LEFT her recent Covid-19 positive in the rear-view mirror as she stormed to victory in the 400m heats at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.

Healy’s time was the third-fastest overall on Friday morning, bettered only by European Indoor champion Femke Bol and double Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas. “I even pushed out my departure to fly Wednesday instead of Tuesday because we wanted a tester session on Tuesday and, to be honest, it was crap.

🏃‍♀️ @philhealy2 won her heat of the 400m at #WorldIndoorChamps and spoke to @DavidGillick afterwards #rtesport pic.twitter.com/jxD5RU5BF0“I was even talking to Derval O’Rourke yesterday and she sent me a voice note and I was playing it before I went in to the call room. She was like, ‘The hard work is done, last week is just a few days out of years of hard work, so just go out there,’ and that’s exactly what I did and put it behind me.

 

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