Treacy plays down Olympic targets

It may be the Olympics but don’t expect the world.

That was the message emanating loud and clear from Dublin’s Davenport Hotel yesterday as the Irish Sports Council (ISC) announced the last tranche of funding for athletes prior to the London Games.

Expectations habitually run riot among the public at large prior to every Olympics but that has been fuelled this time by a list of impressive performances by Irish sportsmen and women around the world since the last Games in Beijing.