World-record signing for school visitors’ book

Winning at the Olympics does away with the need for any profundities when signing the visitors’ book.

If your name is David Rudisha, your entry is, literally, unbeatable. It reads: “800m 1:40:91 (WR),” and it accounts for the latest entry in the log at Mallow Patrician College.

With none of the razzmatazz we associate with celebrity, the world-beating Kenyan runner drew up in the yard of the North Cork college yesterday in a well-travelled blue Ford Focus driven by his modest but brilliant coach, Brother Colm O’Connell.