Nicole Turner: 'When I woke up I wondered was I in some crazy dream'

Nicole Turner is still processing the fact that she is now a Paralympic silver medallist but the Portarlington swimmer is already targeting the Paris Games in 2024

Ireland's Nicole Turner celebrates winning a silver medal

It’s only natural that our eyes are drawn towards Irish athletes standing on podiums in Tokyo this week but there has never been a race run or swam that didn’t displace a cornucopia of emotions and contrasting scenes.

Ellie Robinson was adamant that her fifth-place finish in the S6 50m butterfly yesterday was “a story of triumph, not a story of defeat”. Champion in that class five years ago, and a nine-time major medallist, the Englishwoman had beaten the odds simply to make the start.