Context is always needed. This was Ireland's biggest ever team, with 133 athletes. That made Ireland the 22nd biggest team in Paris. By that crude metric, Ireland overachieved by finishing 19th on the medal table, but not by a huge amount.
There is a word in Portuguese - saudade - that has no direct equivalent in English. It describes an inexplicable longing, a yearning for something special, something transcendent.There should be another word to describe the curious melancholia that creeps up when you know the circus is upping sticks and disappearing for another four years. Los Angeles 2028 seems like a galaxy far, far away. . .
So many get drawn in by the unfamiliar during the Games that it's tempting to think it will have an impact on the sporting landscape. All the Olympic medals look the same and there are plenty who make the argument that they have the same value in every sport.Can we really claim that a gold in either of those has the same value as one in athletics or swimming or boxing - sports with high numbers everywhere?
Her time of 49.28 is the joint highest ever to not medal at an Olympics. It would have been good enough for gold in four of the five Games before Paris. But there was a time when Ireland's Olympics was all about the boxers. They'd come back laden with medals and there would be loose talk about showcasing them outdoors or in the 3 Arena.
Just listen to what boxer Emmet Brennan has said about how he went off the rails after Tokyo. The comedown from the Games can be very hard for athletes to deal with.
Rhasidat Adeleke Paul O'donovan Daniel Wiffen
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