Dishing out the food of champions

AN Irishman is enjoying his third Olympic Games and while his performances in Beijing are not being flashed around the world on giant screens, they certainly make him a winner among sportsmen.

Garry Leahy, 47, who now lives in Sydney but is originally from Ballinlough in Cork city, is a head chef in the athletes’ village, where he oversees the creation of up to 48,000 meals a day.

The father-of-two made his Olympics debut in 2000 in Sydney, the city where he and his family have been based since 1989.