Just turned 22, the Armagh swimmer is fast announcing himself a real Olympic medal prospect in the pool
Paris also marks a sort of homecoming, given the City of Light also hosted those 1924 Games, their chance then for some redemption too after the largely shambolic hosting in 1900 .
Of our eight artistic entries, two won medals, one with a perhaps suitably swimming theme. The year before, in 1923, Jack B Yeats, younger brother of William, witnessed the first Liffey Swim in Dublin, and beautifully captured the moment with his painting of eager spectators leaning over the river walls for a glimpse of the swimmers below. Only the triptych masterwork Etude de Sport by the prolific Jean Jacoby from Luxembourg denied Yeats gold.
Now, 99 years on from Paris 1924, Team Ireland medal prospects have never been greater or indeed deeper. On Wednesday, at an event to mark 365 days to go, the Olympic Federation of Ireland reckoned we could qualify 170 athletes, in 22 sports, well up on the 116 athletes, across 19 sports, who made it to Tokyo.
No Irish swimmer has ever won a medal at these long-course championships, Wiffen’s brilliant effort coming just a day after Mona McSharry, also just 22, finished fifth in the 100m breaststroke, relegated from second inside the final 10m – just 0.13 of a second shy of bronze.
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