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Published 11:14 29 Jul 2021 BST
Updated 11:27 29 Jul 2021 BST
"I think people think that people think you'd be more excited than you actually are but from my experience - I won a medal at the last Olympics and won one or two World Championships - listen it's fine, and you're very happy winning and stuff but at the end of the day then, you forget about it, and kind of get on with life."From there, it seemed as if O'Donovan was back to his half-joking style as he honed in on evolution and the passage of time but even at that, as he shook his head at the titles that will now follow his every move, it suddenly became clear that this man is in the boat because that's where he wants his life to be, not for the places it can bring him. Steak and spuds and pulling like dogs might have made the headlines and led us to the conclusion we wanted that this was a comedian in waiting but five years on, it's all a bit clearer now. "Like this 'not many Irish people have won gold medals thing,' and this and that, that's nice for headlines and you're trying to introduce us like that, but the fact of it is just that we were born early in the history of time. I mean, in a million years from now, we'll have a lot more gold medallists in the Olympic games so that's not really down to us and our training. We can't really take credit for that at all, it's just a bit of luck with being born when we were more than anything." https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/1420664130218995714 It's certainly a lot more than a bit of luck that has brought O'Donovan and McCarthy to the very peak of their sport but as he explained and gestured his way past the usual cliches, it's clear that the hype and hysteria to come won't change Paul O'Donovan from the man he is.
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