Lawyer targets three-legged marathon mark

NOT content with winning the world elephant polo championships and being Ireland’s first pint-sized sumo wrestler, a solicitor is preparing to launch the Paddy Olympics and break the world record for the three-legged race.

Colin Carroll, a 33-year-old from Fermoy, Co Cork, who describes himself as a “sports visionary”, is creating an alternative to the August 8 Beijing games with some madcap track, field and gymnastic events.

He’s already sold the idea to the Americans and Dutch who have promised to send teams to Ireland to compete in what Carroll describes as “an Olympics which reaches out to the common man”.