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Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Daryll Neita makes bold prediction about chance of European Championship success
Daryll Neita has tasted success but remains desperate for her maiden major individual crown – and feels Birmingham next summer would be the perfect destination at which to achieve it. Daryll Neita believes the stars are aligning in her pursuit of a maiden European gold on home soil. The 28-year-old sprinter won 100m continental bronze at Munich 2022 before adding 200m silver to her name two years later in Rome. Neita was part of the women's 4x100m quartet who recorded their best Olympic result since 1965 with silver at Paris 2024 but remains desperate for her maiden major individual crown – and feels Birmingham next summer would be the perfect destination at which to achieve it. "It feels to me like it's meant to be," she said. "I've done the bronze in the 100m and silver in the 200m, so the only other option is for me to win double gold. "That's how I see it and there's no better place to do it than at home. That British cheer is definitely what can get me onto the podium again. "I've made an adjustment in terms of my training set up and the plan is that by next summer I will be raring and ready to go. I'm feeling really confident." The European Athletics Championships come to the UK for the first time next August, with Alexander Stadium in Birmingham playing host. The track hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games, when Neita clocked her 100m personal best of 10.90s, adding to the her enthusiasm in returning next summer in pursuit of gold. "It makes me really excited because I love that track," she said. "There's good vibes to be going back there. Being able to race in front of a home crowd and with friends and family who often don't get to see my race is brilliant. "We don't get many chances to do that as athletes and so when you do, it's so much more special." A quarter of a million tickets for the event will go on sale in September, and prices starting from just £10 for adults. Organisers have ambitions to create one of the most talked about European athletics events in history and Neita wants to play her part in giving athletics on the platform she feels it deserves. "I think it's really exciting, we want to be on top of that podium as GB athletes and it being at home can help that," she said. "We know the UK has the best cheers. I can honestly could feel them under my skin, which is amazing. "Birmingham can bring the spirit of the UK up, and I really hope it can bring back that feeling of London 2012 or Birmingham 2022. This sport has been growing in the past few years and it's been great to be part of that evolution. "For so long there was this talk of athletics needing to be picked up and needing help to get more eyes on it, so it's great to see the amount of opportunities that are now coming through. "People are interested in it, we just need the exposure."
Powys County Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Host more events to inspire the next generation, says Neita
Daryll Neita has called for the UK to host more world-class sporting events to inspire the next generation. The European Athletics Championships come to the UK for the first time next summer with Alexander Stadium in Birmingham playing host. It will mark the first time that the UK has hosted a standalone major athletics championships since the 2017 World Championships in London, with Neita among more than 100 signatories of an open letter released this week calling for the showpiece event to return to the capital in 2029. Racing in front of a home crowd at Birmingham 2026 is an opportunity that Neita is relishing as she plays her part in trying to give athletics a spotlight in non-Olympic years. "I'm all for inspiring the next generation," she said. "I have an athletics community where I plan sports days and it's super important for me that young kids have the opportunity to be inspired by sport and see it live. "For people who watch us on television, to have the opportunity to come down and see us in person is brilliant. "That's what we need as a sporting country. We need this legacy of putting on top events more often." The past two London Athletics Meets have drawn in sell-out crowds and the 2025 event is no different, which Neita feels is part of a wider boom in interest. "This sport has been growing in the past few years and it's been great to be part of that evolution,' she added. "For so long there was this talk of athletics needing to be picked up and needing help to get more eyes on it, so it's great to see the amount of opportunities that are now coming through. "People are interested in it, we just need the exposure." View this post on Instagram A post shared by @birmingham2026 The Birmingham 2026 ticketing information and timetable has now been unveiled, with 250,000 tickets to go on sale in September, and prices starting from just £10 for adults. Neita won 100m European bronze at Munich 2022 before adding 200m silver to her name two years later in Rome. But even with two relays golds from the continental championships in 2018 and 2024, the sprinter is still eager for her first-ever individual major title and feels confident she will finally bring it home in Birmingham. "It feels to be like it's meant to be," she said. "I've done the bronze in the 100m and silver in the 200m, so the only other option is for me to win double gold. "That's how I see it and there's no better place to do it than at home. "That British cheer is definitely what can get me onto the podium again. "I've made an adjustment in terms of my training set up and the plan is that by next summer I will be raring and ready to go. I'm feeling really confident."
Powys County Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Daryll Neita believes stars aligning for maiden European title
Daryll Neita believes the stars are aligning in her pursuit of a maiden European gold on home soil. The 28-year-old sprinter won 100m continental bronze at Munich 2022 before adding 200m silver to her name two years later in Rome. Neita was part of the women's 4x100m quartet who recorded their best Olympic result since 1965 with silver at Paris 2024 but remains desperate for her maiden major individual crown – and feels Birmingham next summer would be the perfect destination to achieve it. "It feels to be like it's meant to be," she said. "I've done the bronze in the 100m and silver in the 200m, so the only other option is for me to win double gold. "That's how I see it and there's no better place to do it than at home. That British cheer is definitely what can get me onto the podium again. "I've made an adjustment in terms of my training set up and the plan is that by next summer I will be raring and ready to go. I'm feeling really confident." View this post on Instagram A post shared by @birmingham2026 The European Athletics Championships come to the UK for the first time next August, with Alexander Stadium in Birmingham playing host. The track hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games, when Neita clocked her 100m personal best of 10.90s, adding to the her enthusiasm in returning next summer in pursuit of gold. "It makes me really excited because I love that track," she said. "There's good vibes to be going back there. Being able to race in front of a home crowd and with friends and family who often don't get to see my race is brilliant. "We don't get many chances to do that as athletes and so when you do, it's so much more special." A quarter of a million tickets for the event will go on sale in September, and prices starting from just £10 for adults. Organisers have ambitions to create one of the most talked about European athletics events in history and Neita wants to play her part in giving athletics on the platform she feels it deserves. "I think it's really exciting, we want to be on top of that podium as GB athletes and it being at home can help that," she said. "We know the UK has the best cheers. I can honestly could feel them under my skin, which is amazing. "Birmingham can bring the spirit of the UK up, and I really hope it can bring back that feeling of London 2012 or Birmingham 2022. "This sport has been growing in the past few years and it's been great to be part of that evolution. "For so long there was this talk of athletics needing to be picked up and needing help to get more eyes on it, so it's great to see the amount of opportunities that are now coming through. "People are interested in it, we just need the exposure."
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Daryll Neita making most of advice from Noah Lyles and training with Gout Gout
British sprint star Daryll Neita moved from Italy to Florida after last summer's Olympics so she could redouble her efforts to win a first individual major medal Daryll Neita emerged from last summer's Paris cauldron proud but aware that she needed to change. Fourth in the 100m and fifth in the 200m, she was more convinced than ever that a major individual medal was a stride away. And while she won a 4x100m relay silver, the overall Olympic experience was 'bittersweet.' So Neita, 28, packed her bags and bought two one-way tickets – the other for chihuahua Melon – to Florida and a spot on legendary coach Lance Braumann's roster. Within days she was stepping on to the track with men's 100m Olympic champ Noah Lyles and the Australian teen prodigy Gout Gout. And from so often being the nearly woman Neita now feels 100% certain that life-changing success is within reach. 'I was so locked in in Paris that I was not leaving without an individual medal,' she says. 'That was what I promised myself, I wasn't going to leave without one, and then I left without the individual medal. 'That was tough because I knew I could do it and I was so close. That would have just changed my life, really put me where I was trying to be, but there was actually so much good stuff. 'I did great. I'm so close. It might not look how it needs to right now, but I know where I'm going and I know what I'm doing and I will be on that podium. I will get there. I'm around people that have achieved these things many times.' Getting to work next to 'perfectionist' Lyles, who is never slow to offer advice, while being guided by the coach who has led athletes to more than 50 Olympic and world medals is already paying dividends. Neita, speaking to mark the launch of tickets for next summer's European championships in Birmingham, is running well and cashing in on Michael Johnson's lucrative Grand Slam Track programme. She will soon come back to Europe for a handful of Diamond League appearances before sharpening up for August's trials and, once there are no niggles, an attack on the medals at September's World Championships. 'Hundred per cent we're going to see me on that podium and that's something that I feel very confident in,' she says. 'Getting so close to that podium twice, I felt like it's really important for me to be in a place where every single thing is gearing towards it and there's no stone left unturned. 'Coach B was an amazing opportunity. He's coached so many females that have inspired me in my journey and I know he can do the same with me.' Neita has lapped up Lyles' tidbits of wisdom. 'Very inspiring,' she adds. 'He has the eye for everybody else, so he's very giving in terms of any kind of correction you can make or if he thinks you can do something better.' Watching Gout, 17, up close, meanwhile, was dazzling. The Aussie is already smashing records and reasonably being talked up as the long-awaited heir to Usain Bolt. And Neita says: 'I even learned some things from him because when he was doing his drills, I was like, 'Wow, his ankle stiffness. There's some things that he's got naturally that are just really, really special.' Yet Neita needs time to think about what they may be learning from her. Resilience, she says after a lengthy pause. 'How I am able to bring a positive attitude even in moments when things might not be going exactly how I might want them to be going," she adds. 'Being able to come back and reset, go again, just being professional on that level where it's like it's sport, you've gotta trust your process, you've gotta come back in with a smile on your face. You've gotta know it's fine, like it's part of it. You just keep moving forward, I think. I think they might have picked up on that.'
