Mixed emotions but bronze sheds Daniel Wiffen in an even better light

Wiffen’s second medal brings to seven the number Ireland have won here, one across each of the last seven days.

TWO OLYMPIC MEDALS: Daniel Wiffen with his 800m freestyle gold medal and 1500m freestyle bronze medal.  Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

You wonder was there a bit of Nathan Wiffen in the whole country early on Sunday evening. When the men’s 1500m freestyle final was done and Daniel Wiffen approached his family, he found his twin brother, well, kind of glaring at him.

It was Nathan who had predicted that the 800m final duly won by his bro last Tuesday ‘wouldn’t be a race’ when he spoke to the Irish Examiner. The 800 was closer than that, but Daniel did win it and it fed into a feeling that this second bid was in the bag.