Eire rowers Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan accomplished back-to-back
Olympic titles after defending the light-weight males’s double sculls title in Paris.
The pair stormed to gold at Tokyo three years in the past and repeated the feat with an excellent efficiency on the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on Friday.
McCarthy and O’Donovan, who had certified with the quickest time, trailed Greece and Italy within the early phases however eased previous them earlier than midway and stored pushing to maneuver away during the last 500 metres.
McCarthy and O’Donovan crossed the ending line in 6:10.99, over two seconds away from silver medallists Italy with Greece taking bronze.
O’Donovan mentioned: “It was all the time unsure for everybody else, nobody believed we might do it coming into this competitors and in opposition to all the percentages we caught with it, skilled onerous.”
McCarthy added: “(Gold) was all the time the goal for positive. We mentioned early within the week we had a rocky sufficient season, effectively I did. Paul is clearly as constant as hell by way of the entire yr…
“I used to be making an attempt to maintain below wraps the nerves and the doubts however popping out for the ultimate there have been no nerves. We had some actually good rounds, I actually felt like we had been again at our greatest for this race.”
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