Colm O'Regan: Time for 'what businesses can learn from the Olympics'

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan pictured in Cork. Picture Denis Minihane.

We are out the other end of the Olympics. (And, in the case of the Seine swimmers, the Olympics is out the other end of them.) The next stage is, ‘What Can We Learn From the Olympics For Life?’

A recent article talked about what Irish athlete Sharlene Mawdsley’s attitude to defeat teaches us about improving cattle herd fertility. I don’t know enough about either herd fertility or 400m running to comment. There’s no doubt farming is a modern octathlon: Sprinting, hammer throwing (or losing one in a field), hurdling (ditches), fencing, rowing (with your neighbour over fencing), rhythmic gymnastics (dosing cattle), shooting (crows) and rugby sevens against Fiji (herding yearlings).