Sinéad O’Carroll

Aug 10, 2024 | the42.ie | Ryan Byrne |Sinéad O’Carroll |Sinead O'Carroll

WHAT DOES ONE say when the thing that you want, the only thing you really want, doesn’t happen? That you have to wait more than a year for another chance to even try again. Crossing the finish line in Stade de France, Rhasidat Adeleke looked up and heartbreak was realised. Fourth again. Fourth in a international final, just as in the World Championships in Budapest 2023. Mere minutes after that comedown, athletes are obliged to talk to the rights-holding press assembled in their pens.

Aug 4, 2024 | the42.ie | Sinéad O’Carroll |Sinead O'Carroll

A 10-YEAR PLAN come to fruition, Rhys McClenaghan was overcome with emotion when he finished his 15.533 pommel horse routine in the Bercy Arena in Paris last night. Tears – of relief and elation – streamed on dismount from the apparatus and on ascent of the podium. But on being announced to the world’s media in the post-competition press conference as the Olympic champion and Ireland’s first ever Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics, the 25-year-old Down man oozed charisma and composure.

Jul 29, 2024 | the42.ie | Sinéad O’Carroll |Sinead O'Carroll

“DREAM AS BIG as you can dream and anything is possible.”Words spoken by Michael Phelps, the freakish American swimmer who collected medals and gathered world records as if they were 1p jellies and Pokémon cards between 2000 and 2016. The Maryland native was giddy with inspirational quotes in Beijing 2008 because he had just matched a record held by Mark Spitz for 36 long years for the most amount of gold medals won by an individual at a single Games.

Jul 29, 2024 | the42.ie | Sinéad O’Carroll |Sinead O'Carroll

THE HOME OF Top 14 rugby team, Racing 92, hosted Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on 15 May 2024. Once the Swifties had departed La Défense, the Paris 2024 Organising Committee swept in to transform the arena into a Olympic swimming venue, complete with a 50m-long, 2.3m-deep pool, media centre, athlete zone and broadcast areas. The makeover is magnificent.

Jul 30, 2023 | thejournal.ie | Sinéad O’Carroll |Sinead O'Carroll

Sinead O'Carroll Reports from Perth, Australia KATIE MCCABE HAS that energy. You know what I’m talking about? The one where it’s patent she’s just not like you, or the rest of us. We’re drawn to her not because we long to be like her or even aspire to be her friend – because that feels impossible, too much. She is for us to marvel at. When fans in Perth explicitly asked for a ‘World Cup moment‘, it was always going to be Katie.