Nerveless champion Paul O'Donovan on why pair don't actually deserve much credit at all

Olympic honour just down to 'being born early in the history of time'. 

2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Thursday - Rowing, Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo, Japan 29/7/2021

Paul O’Donovan has a magnificently unique take on why he and Fintan McCarthy don’t actually deserve all that much credit for winning Irish rowing’s first Olympic gold medal and just the country’s 10th gold in all.

And he shared it with Peter Collins as the Skibbereen duo explained how the race was won this morning on RTÉ’s Olympic coverage.