The plan is to come back for LA '28 - just as long as his twin brother Nathan is still training with him
Daniel Wiffen would love a shout out from Conor McGregor to put the icing on the cake on his Paris Olympics.
"I’m just so happy to be part of this team. Who would be the biggest star in Ireland, I want to say Conor McGregor? Now, that’s a shout out that maybe he should ." "I’ve never seen this before. I see it with Noah Lyles, Simone Biles or Lebron James when he’s in the Village, and then it’s happening to me, it’s like ‘what's going on?’ I just won the 800m freestyle, it’s not like I won the 100m athletics.
The good news for his new legion of Irish fans is that Daniel, a gold and bronze medal winner in Paris, expects that will be the case.
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