RHASIDAT ADELEKE was rubbing shoulders with music megastar Rihanna at a glitzy fashion event in London this week. The nine-time Grammy winner was launching her new beauty product range at Oxford Street's famed Selfridges store. Sprint ace Adeleke was on the guestlist for the exclusive event and shared a series of stylish pics of her own from the evening out.
Her photo album drew as much praise from followers as a Rihanna one typically would. Among them, Irish relay teammate Sharlene Mawdsley announced: "Yep, she slayed." Cork camogie star Ashling Thompson and Virgin Media presenter Katja Mia also heaped praise on her stunning look.
Similarly, another follower posted: "Actual supermodel." While someone else wrote: "Such a natural beauty! You got it from your mama." Since her dual fourth place finishes at the Olympics, Adeleke has primarily been back training at her team's base at the University of Texas .
She was in Belgium last week as she capped off her season with a third-place at a Diamond League meet. The 22-year-old originally came fourth once again but was bumped up in the placings after Salwa Eid Naser was disqualified for a lane infringement. The Dubliner clocked a time of 50.
96, well outside her national record set in June's National Athletics Championships . Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino powered into the lead around the final bend to win in a time of 49.45.
The USA's Alexis Holmes came second after running an impressive final straight to clock a time of 50.32. Mawdsley herself is currently holidaying in Greece to celebrate the end of another gruelling season on the track.
She brought the curtain down on her season in victorious fashion last Monday in Switzerland. She clocked a time of 51.35 to beat Austria’s Susanne Gogl-Walli and Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands to the line.
That was her first competition since coming within milliseconds of guiding the women's relay team home to a bronze medal finish. Mawdsley, 26, clearly took being pipped into fourth place in Paris very hard. Not only was she very tough on herself immediately afterwards in the quartet's emotional interview with David Gillick but she's repeated how responsible she felt on a recent podcast appearance too.
Speaking with The 2 Johnnies , she explained: "I thought I was in second, but we've all gotten the baton at the same time. "When I looked back on it, I was like, 'not the end of the world', because it does take four people and not just me. "At that time, I thought that's my fault that we came from second to fourth but we'd actually all gotten the baton at the same time which eased me a little bit.
"I had started crying on the track and then we went over and said thanks to the Irish fans for coming and I had seen my parents and I was like bawling. "My Mum was like 'you ran a 49.14' so that was the fastest I'd ever ran.
"But she could've told me I ran a world record and it still wouldn't have made a difference because I was so upset.".
