Skibbereen duo deliver Ireland’s second Olympic gold of the Paris Games in style.
IRISH ROWING SUPERSTARS Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy cemented their status as the best lightweight double sculls crew in the world as they sealed back-to-back Olympic titles in Paris.
The Skibbereen duo turned up the heat in the second half of the race to take gold in 6:10.99 ahead of Italy’s Stefano Oppo and Gabriel Soares , who pipped Greece’s Antonios Papakonstantinou and Petros Gaidatzis in a photo finish . Advertisement Defending champions O’Donovan and McCarthy sat between the duelling pair, biding their time before slowly dialling up their stroke rate as the race approached the half-way mark.
They had more than two seconds to spare over the field at the finish line, while Oppo and Soares had just enough left in the tank to clinch silver on the final stroke.
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