The Dubliner came fourth in the SB8 100m breaststroke final at the Paralympics on Friday evening
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“I just tried to push on and push through and try stretch out that stroke but the finish just wasn’t there in the legs.” “So it wasn’t to do with knowing where I was or any of that, I only knew when I finished what happened. I would liked to have swam faster, even being in fourth and swimming faster would have been nice, but it wasn’t to be.”
“I don’t know who he was, he just asked for a selfie. I was like, ‘I can’t walk, but okay,’ and then I went over to him and he had the camera facing the other way,” she smiled. “In Ireland, swimming is very much a young person’s sport. There are only five or six us, able bodied and Paralympic, who are over the age of 26, and I am 29, so it can be quite lonely.
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