Dearbhaile Brady has looked up to Nicole Turner through the years.
Emma Duffy Reports from Paris DEARBHAILE BRADY WATCHED her hero, Nicole Turner , at the last Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Three years on, she’s set to compete with her in Paris.
She was scouted by Para Swimming Performance Director Dave Malone at the 2022 summer national championships, and has gone from strength to strength since. “I didn’t know the Paralympics existed until I started knowing a bit more about Nicole. I watched her in Tokyo, that’s how we seen there was such a thing as the Paralympics. I thought for me it would have been the Olympics.
The recent success has made Brady “more motivated,” and she’ll be hoping to make a splash at La Défense Arena.“When I was growing up, my parents didn’t want me in the water because of the general fear, I couldn’t reach a lot of the pools,” the Limavidy Swimming Club star says.
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