Paul O'Donovan: After exams you'd be like a cow being let out of the shed in springtime

Olympic rowing ace happy to take his ease and peak when it matters later in the summer

Vikki Wall, Paul O’Donovan and Eimear Considine at the National Dairy Council Sports Ambassador 2022 launch at Sport Ireland Institute.

Paul O’Donovan’s name was nowhere to be found on the list of competitors when Ireland’s elite rowers took to the water for the first major event of the 2022 season in Piediluco, Italy earlier this month.

The Olympic gold medallist was instead stuck in the books back in UCC where he is about to sit another set of medical exams.