While Cork compromise, Tipp win

THE man’s sport is swimming but, as he was speaking, we were all thinking hurling.

With at least one gold medal winner at each of the last nine Olympics, Bill Sweetenham — an expert on winning as much as swimming — made it clear that he has no time for the word trotted out so often during the last couple of Cork strikes, ‘compromise’.

“I hate it,” he told fellow coaches attending his workshop in Dublin recently.