What time is Rhasidat Adeleke's Olympic 400m final on at?
Ireland's sprint queen needs to rediscover her best form after a semi-final struggle at the Stade de France
Rhasidat Adeleke is searching for the spark that could make her Ireland's first ever Olympic sprint medallist.
Second in the European Championships in June and fourth in last year's World Championships, Adeleke, has geared her season towards the 400m final at the Stade de France.
The indications were that she was peaking at the right time as she cruised to victory in her heat on Monday.
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But the 21-year-old, along with her coach Edrick Floréal, has been forced to search quickly for answers after finishing in second place in her semi-final in a time of 49.95 on Wednesday night.
She qualified automatically for the final - but in the sixth fastest time - and Adeleke received medical treatment after the race, but OFI officials insisted later that she had not been injured or had not taken ill.
The three semi-final winners were the Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino, Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain and Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek - the latter pipped Adeleke to the European crown in Rome.
All three have run under 49 seconds before and are the favourites to medal in the final, with Paulino's 49.21 time while easing down marking her out as the athlete to beat for the gold.
But if Adeleke - whose PB is 49.07 - can find her best form then she certainly has a chance of making the podium.
In the Tallaght star's favour is her lane draw. She will start in lane 4, so will have the race favourites outside her and she can react to them.
Also in her favour is that two of the event's top names didn't make the final, with Nickisha Pryce of Jamaica and the Netherland's Lieke Klaver failing to come through their semi-finals.
So Adeleke wasn't the only athlete out of sorts, for whatever reason.
She has experience of big finals but, if she is fully fit, must focus on running her own race as not having done so previously has cost her.
After a good start to her semi-final - she ran 23.22 for 200m - Adeleke appeared to be surprised to see Naser pass her on the inside, and she admitted afterwards that she panicked a little. That cost her over the last 100m of what Adeleke described as a "messy" race.
But her target was to do "something special" on the biggest stage of all - and if Adeleke is back to 100% on the starting blocks tonight then she has the chance to make history.
Ireland has only won seven track and field medals in 100 years of competing at the Olympics.
Apart from the prospect of becoming the first Irish sprinter to make the podium, if Adeleke is successful on Friday night at 7pm Irish time it would be Ireland's first medal on the track since Sydney 2000, when Sonia O'Sullivan won silver.
And, if she made the podium, that achievement would extend an already record-breaking medal haul for Team Ireland in Paris.
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