Rhys McClenaghan won gold in the men's Pommel Horse at the Paris Olympics
Rhys McClenagHan doesn’t know any other way. Standing in the shade at the Place du Trocadero, moments after participating in the Walk of Champions parade, he had that Olympic gold medal around neck for company as well as 15,000 applauding fans.
But so did the straight-talking, can-do attitude of this new generation of Olympians. They took over the Games in their own way and helped to raise Ireland to a record high. The older guard had their own ways of getting it done. Paul O’Donovan tried to pull the underdogs card but just got everyone laughing at the idea of it as he became Ireland’s greatest ever Olympian.
The 25-year-old said: “Obviously I’m standing here with a medal and saying that but back then I was perplexed when people said, 'Oh, you’re actually saying your goals’. Hell yeah I’m saying my goals. I’m making them as clear as possible so that if something goes wrong and is veering off the pathway of achieving that goal, I know exactly, ‘OK, this is not in line with this goal here’.
“I pick and choose from other athletes, not how they speak or present themselves, but how their mind works, it’s what you see almost behind their eyes that is interesting to me,” he explained. Away from the glamour of competing on the biggest stage there were dark days. But McClenaghan made the decision to enjoy the path to Paris, all of it.
It is an attitude that gymnastics superstar Simone Biles embraced after she exited the Tokyo stage, the pressure of performing under such a harsh spotlight affecting her mental health.
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