If you watch enough sport, you will have heard athletes and coaches say a million times that “they had no doubt” about winning. Ireland’s Kate O’Connor celebrates with her silver medal from the women's heptathlon event at the World Athletics Championships. It is the new language of Irish sport. They’re not afraid of winning, or where the baldheaded pursuit of winning might leave them on a bad day. Walking up the fairway he turned to his caddie Darren Reynolds and laid it on the line for himself.

Source: The Irish Times December 25, 2025 06:08 UTC