Robert Dickson: 'If we sail to the best of our ability, there’s no reason why a medal is out of reach'

Dickson and Sean Waddilove have been sailing together over a decade, since their mid-teens.

MEDAL IN SIGHTS: Sean Waddilove and Robert Dickson will be aiming to sail their way to a medal at the Olympics. Picture: ©INPHO/James Crombie

This country’s best athletes harbour big dreams but Ireland remains a small country. You might only need one or two rather than six the degrees of separation before joining the dots with any two people. Not even that in the case of Sean Waddilove and Ciaran Frawley.

Waddilove will partner Robert Dickson in the Olympic waters in the men’s skiff around Marseille Marina in the coming weeks. Frawley needs no such introduction after his heroics for Ireland against South Africa last weekend.