'One more chapter of magnificence from the men from County Cork' - George Hamilton calls his first Irish gold at 11th Olympics

Fintan McCarthy, left, and Paul O'Donovan of Ireland cross the line to win the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls final at the Sea Forest Waterway during the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

After thousands of football internationals, champions leagues ties and bread and butter league fixtures; 10 previous Olympic games as well as hundreds of athletics meets; the odd GAA match; millions of metaphors and flights of fancy; dozens of goals conceded due to premature chicken counting; and countless displays of sophisticated foreign language pronunciation; George Hamilton finally clocked up one first last night — he called an Irish Olympic gold.

And naturally George found the words.