Michelle Carpenter hit nail on head with Irish rowing's Olympic prediction

Ireland’s Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen celebrate with their medals after finishing third in the Lightweight Women’s Double and qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics at the World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, in Lucerne, Switzerland.  Picture: Detlev Seyb

Three years ago, Rowing Ireland chief executive Michelle Carpenter made a bold prediction about their representation on Team Ireland’s flight to the Tokyo Olympics.

“Everyone thought we were crazy,” she says of that 2019 statement which targeted qualifying between five and seven Irish boats for the Games.