On Wednesday, rower Hannah Scott, 25, won gold as part of Team GB’s women’s quadruple sculls final. Northern Ireland had previously won just three gold medals in the Olympics. Dame Mary Peters won gold in the pentathlon in the 1972 Games in Munich, while Stephen Martin and Jimmy Kirkwood earned gold with the Team GB hockey team in Seoul in 1988. Daniel Wiffen poses with his gold medal (John Walton/PA)“We’ve only 1.8 million people to choose from and yet we are having all these successes. “I welcome them (the new Northern Ireland gold medallists) all in because it made my life exceptional and it will for them too.

Source: The Herald July 31, 2024 19:05 UTC