Final anguish for Coppinger as slip proves costly

 

After last weekend’s All-Ireland bowling series in Eglish, Colm Rafferty, Hannah Cronin, Paul Rafferty, Andrew O’Leary, Megan O’Reilly, Eoghan McVeigh and Fionán Twohig are all champions on Cloud-9, but their seven opponents, all of whom are provincial champions, will be feeling less happy despite an otherwise spectacular 2024.

That sharp divide between win and lose is night and day, but often as thin as a sheet of paper, or for Noah Lyles five-thousandths of a second for a 100m gold medal.