A life less ordinary

It’s 4.52am on a Monday morning and while you’re asleep she’s going to work.

Gráinne Murphy exits the darkness and enters a red sidedoor and the fantastic light of the UL Sports Arena’s high performance swimming centre.

The lights are on because Ronald Claes is already here. Gráinne’s alarm went off at 4.35am, her coach’s went off at 4.20am. In virtually everything, Gráinne follows Ronald. They first started working together in early 2008 when she was 14 and he was 28 and even then he had a plan for London, this month, even this week, which she has trusted fully.