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A year ago it was all up in the air.

Their whole world was up in the air. Gráinne’s. Chris’s. Shani’s. Everyone’s.

Their coach, Ronald Claes, had left after Swim Ireland hadn’t renewed his contract for the next Olympic cycle, and as this column reported at the time, the fear among the swimmers down in UL was that high performance swimming would be leaving town with him.