‘Greatest Athlete of All Time’ nominee James Kehoe: ‘I still haven’t got my head around it’

One tug of war contest against a Basque team lasted 55 minutes and 17 seconds and prompted a rule change by the sport’s regulators. “People went off to have their lunch and when they came back we were still in the same spot,” Kehoe chuckles

SILVER LINING: James Kehoe has won nine tug of war medals for Ireland at the quadrennial World Games, dozens of podium places in European competition and over a hundred national titles, and has been nominated as World Games’ ‘Greatest Athlete of All Time’. Pictures: Laszlo Geczo

A reporter from Reuters paid James Kehoe a visit in rural Wexford this week. Jennifer Zamparelli had him on her radio show another morning and a photographer from the Inpho sports agency persuaded him into a few pictures too.

None of this is standard.