Our forgotten Olympians

IRISH individuals have a particularly proud record in the Olympics.

As John Treacy was completing the lap of the stadium to win the silver in the Olympic marathon at Los Angeles in 1984, Jimmy Magee rattled off the names of 11 Irish people who won 12 medals representing Ireland at the 13 Olympic Games since Irish independence.

He actually omitted the names of the first two medalists representing the Irish Free State at the Paris Olympics of 1924. They have generally been forgotten, because their medals were for the arts in connection with sport.