Swimming gold medallist Daniel Wiffen needed to withdraw from his position as one in every of Eire’s flagbearers on the Olympic Video games closing ceremony due to sickness.
Wiffen’s unavailability meant that gold-winning rower Fintan McCarthy stepped into the position alongside one other swimming medallist Mona McSharry.
Magheralin man Wiffen competed within the 10km open water swimming occasion in Paris on Friday morning.
The water high quality within the River Seine was a difficulty for the Olympic organisers with the lads’s triathlon occasion having to be postponed for twenty-four hours throughout the first week of the Video games.
Wiffen, 23, received a gold medal within the 800m freestyle and claimed bronze within the 1500m previous to competing within the open water occasion and he had described his choice for the closing ceremony position as “a terrific privilege”.
McSharry received Eire’s first medal of the Olympics when she completed third within the 100m breaststroke.
The 23-year-old stated she was “so shocked” to be chosen and it was “an unimaginable manner” to spherical out the Video games.
The 2024 Olympics have been probably the most profitable in Eire’s historical past.
Gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, boxer Kellie Harrington and rowers Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy all added to Wiffen’s gold medal.
Banbridge rower Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch additionally took a third-place end within the males’s double sculls.
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