Hannah can enjoy ‘little holiday’ after Olympic heroics

Irish kayaker Hannah Craig has some pressing issues to attend to after finishing 10th in the Olympic Games.

There is a bed to be purchased for the house she bought but has barely seen on the Ards peninsula. There is the commitment to coaching the next generation of young Irish Canoe Slalom talent through her development programme, Beyond 2012. Then and only then will she think about a “little holiday”.

The Lee Valley White Water Centre, which 24 hours earlier had crushed Eoin Rheinisch’s Olympic dreams, was a much happier hunting ground for the bubbly 27-year-old from Armoy in Antrim who took up kayaking after her family moved to France when she was nine.