Ireland's rowers focusing on process not medal outcome for Olympics 

TRUSTING THE PROCESS: Paul O'Donovan, left, and Fintan McCarthy will be going to Paris to defend their Olympic gold. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Medals. They're the only currency that carry real weight among a sporting public that is largely indifferent to the existence of minority sports for the majority of every four-year Olympic cycle.  Just making the Games is an achievement of extraordinary means for the majority of those athletes who appear in Paris but there is no getting away from the expectations held for certain people and specific sports.

Ireland's rowing team, for example.