Peter O'Leary: Patience pays for Annalise Murphy

Four years is a long time for another Olympics to come around, but after Annalise Murphy slipped out of the medal positions into fourth in 2012, she was determined to come back and put right what had happened.

The dreaded leather medal. For an Olympic athlete, there is a long wait to put right what happened from London 2012, it’s not like you can go out the following weekend and fix what went wrong previously.

Annalise has had to bide her time and set out a plan of how to be standing on the box in Rio. She won the European Championships in 2013 in her home club and that would have helped banish some of the demons from that medal race in 2012.