Fairytale continues for Ireland’s Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner

Swimming sensations Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner continued their successful Games, both reaching the final of their respective events yesterday.

Keane clocked 1:10.95 to finish second in her heat of the S9 100m butterfly, knocking over half a second off her previous best of 1:11.56. “I’m really happy,” she said. “My goal was to make the final and I did that.”

Turner, meanwhile, somehow found the energy within her to reach her fifth straight swimming final in Rio, clocking 1:48.13 in her heat of the SB6 100m to advance through yesterday morning.