Olympics-bound Liam Jegou: 'I've always been very proud to be Irish'

Born in Brittany to a French father and an Irish mother, he spent his first two years living in Switzerland and the next five in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare

Canoe Slalom racer Liam Jegou was the first Team Ireland athlete to be selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Ask any Olympic hopeful for their plans this next six months and the only guarantee is a hesitancy borne of doubt.

Like the rest of us, they are hostages to fortune and a pandemic that is proving harder to shift than a drunken uncle at Christmas but Liam Jegou's delay when quizzed on his schedule a few weeks ago owed itself to something else entirely.