Reigning 1500m and 3000m champion will sit out championships in Torun next month as she directs all of her energies towards the Olympics
Laura Muir will not be attempting a “triple double” at next month’s European Indoor Championships in Poland. The 27-year-old created history in Glasgow almost exactly two years ago when she successfully defended her 1500m and 3000m titles but, with the postponed Tokyo Olympics in mind, she is not planning to toe the start line in Torun on March 5-7.
“In the year of the Olympics we tend to focus on the outdoors,” she told AW in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t do a big indoor season in 2016 so I wasn’t looking to do the championships.
“I love racing indoors and it’s a nice opportunity to check where you’re at but I wouldn’t have done any of the major championships and it’s nice not to be worrying about that championships [the European Indoors] because we’re not going to be considering it, anyway.”
A few travel hiccups aside, Muir has been putting in some solid training time at a British Athletics camp in Dubai of late and, in these pandemic-altered times, has been enjoying having the single focus of athletic improvement.
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