Out of the pool but Bree relishing London calling

Andrew Bree didn’t know much about Knoxville, Tennessee before he arrived over a decade ago at the prestigious university around which the town is built.

He was especially unaware of the distinctive colours of the sports department which he had signed up to join.

“Soon enough, I’m walking around campus in the orange kit, the Catholic boy from Northern Ireland. ‘What are my mates going to think?’ It was funny,” he recalled last week from his family home in Co Down.