The lightweight will be first into the ring today as the boxing begins for the Irish team in Paris
Clancy, the first of the Irish boxers to step into a competitive Olympic ring in the north of the city at the Paris Arena, has his sketch pad with him in the Olympic Village.
“I only got back into it recently there,” he says of drawing his team-mates. “My grandad was a very good painter. It came from him, my grandfather Benny Clancy in Manorhamilton. I’ve never actually seen all his work, but I remember seeing an exhibition in Leitrim Sculpture . We had a big room full of his paintings.
By then Clancy had converted from kick-boxing to boxing. His dad, having seen something in his son, already had him thinking about being the best he could be. “There’s a part of me that really believes I’m meant to be here,” he says. “It’s just rolled and fallen into place. Since getting into boxing everything has been leading towards this.
When Clancy was qualifying last year at the European Games in Krackow, his grandfather on his mother’s side, Tony Walsh, was ill. But he was in good spirits when his grandson saw him before travelling to Poland. “I’d be quite religious and do believe in prayer and after my fight I pointed up to him ... that he would be looking down. The funeral was on the same day. It was actually on when I was in the ring which is kind of crazy. My brother had the live results when they were entering the church. Crazy day.”
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