Business as usual for O'Donovans as sponsors stay on board

Paul and Gary O’Donovan are part of Team Visa, Worldwide Payment Technology partner of the Olympic Games. Picture: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

We're beyond the one-year-to-go markers. Again. The Tokyo Games would have come and gone by now had 2020 not taken its turn down Dystopia Lane. Athletes have digested the disappointment and reconfigured their satnavs for 2021 and all the diversions that came with that.

Competitions calendars have been ravaged in most cases, rerouted down distant roads later this year, or even further down the track, in plenty of others. Training plans have been erased and new Excel spreadsheets created and highlighters purchased to start again.