No money or medals can save you from sporting end

Listening this week to the former rugby international Luke Fitzgerald talking about his retirement from the game was a reminder that there is only one certainty in every sporting career: it will end, writes Paul Rouse.

And when that end comes, the sporting world will spin on, regardless of who or what has been lost.

And for all the montage of memories, the story of sport will shift on so quickly that even the immediate past will seem more like ancient history. Or even mythology.