Wiffen Walks The Walk, Olympic Fever, Biles Greatness, Lonely At the Top
It’s wall-to-wall Olympics on the World Service this week. Mona McSharry managed Ireland’s first medal of the 2024 games, Daniel Wiffen backed up his supreme confidence with a Gold medal performance and Simone Biles cemented herself in Olympic history.
Meanwhile, Andy Lee joined us in studio to chat about his time at the Athens Olympics in 2004, a lonely experience for Ireland’s solo fighter at the dawn of the Irish High Performance era.
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Gavin Cooney joins us on the line from France to talk about another raucous night at the Pool, the doping cloud which hangs over athletes from the People’s Republic of China and this morning’s downbeat Irish rowing Bronze.https://t.co/iUmT2sT9Rt pic.twitter.com/5tzh0XmMNK
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