Skeleton racer Brendan Doyle: 'It destroys your body, it costs an arm and a leg but, by God, it's too much fun for a human'

Brendan Doyle hopes to at the Winter Olympics in 2022. Picture: Inpho

Not every elite Irish athlete will be bursting through the doors of their training base next week.

The government may be dropping the travel restrictions that kept 200 or so of our best sportspeople from their places of work but Covid-19 health and safety measures will mean that capacities fall far short of what they had been.