{"id":10510,"date":"2022-05-31T07:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:11:31","slug":"the-athletic-freak-that-is-lindsay-peat-joses-quiet-departure-and-the-weeks-best-sportswriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10510","title":{"rendered":"The ‘athletic freak’ that is Lindsay Peat, Jos\u00e9’s quiet departure, and the week’s best sportswriting"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Imagine, just for a second, that a man did all of this. His mug would be splashed across Connolly Station Bridge so people marching on Croker could see him. His brand would amass seven-figure annual returns from a post-career media profile. He\u2019d be a household name, loved or despised with everyone agreeing he\u2019s an \u2018athletic freak\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n Lindsay Peat.<\/p>\n

Source: Inpho.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor, as a coach, is well placed to explain how it is even possible for an athlete to play four sports at the highest level.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cPound for pound she is the strongest female athlete I\u2019ve come across. It is just sheer force of personality as well. If we were practising high catching she\u2019d go \u2018Right, we are practicing together\u2019. Mainly because nobody else wanted an elbow in the gob but also she knew I worked a lot of the high catch \u2018You practice it all the time and you are the tallest so I want to practice with you \u2018cause you\u2019ll be the hardest to beat.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve never come across anyone like her. I think it goes back to the essence of Lindsay as a sports person. She just makes it happen. In her DNA, she is a sports woman.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And a mother. And a coach. And a public speaker. And a PE teacher. And a clerical officer for the HSE.<\/em><\/p>\n

And an international rugby player.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Irish Times\u2019 Gavin Cummiskey profiles Ireland\u2019s evergreen prop, Lindsay Peat \u2014 formerly a Dublin footballer, Ireland basketball star and underage soccer international\u00a0 \u2014 ahead of her 34th cap against Italy last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0He didn\u2019t even win the news cycle! Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is out as manager of Tottenham Hotspur, sacked after just 17 months, sacked only days before he was set to lead the team into the final of the Carabao Cup, and it wasn\u2019t even the biggest soccer story of the day. Not even the biggest of the morning! The Carabao Cup would have been Jos\u00e9\u2019s first chance to win his first trophy at Tottenham, which hasn\u2019t won a trophy of any description since George W. Bush was president. But the unceremonious firing of one of the world\u2019s most famous managers was below-the-fold news compared to the announcement of the European Super League. And so the tenure of Mourinho at Spurs ended in the least Mourinho style imaginable \u2014 quietly, and while most people were paying attention to something else.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>\u2018Where Did You Go, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho?\u2019 writes\u00a0Brian Phillips for The Ringer.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0O\u2019Toole, who captained Ireland for 10 years and remains the team\u2019s all-time top scorer, recounts similar tales of Taylor. She first came across the \u201cbaby-faced\u201d 16-year-old at an international camp where younger players were being introduced to the more senior players.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was able to tell me then what she was going to do,\u201d O\u2019Toole tells ESPN. \u201cShe said: \u2018I\u2019m going to box at the Olympics.\u2019\u201d When O\u2019Toole reminded her that women weren\u2019t allowed to box at the Olympics, Taylor\u2019s response was simple: \u201cI\u2019ll get boxing at the Olympics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was a prescient statement from Taylor. Years later, O\u2019Toole and Taylor would carry the Olympic torch together through Dublin as part of its relay to London 2012, ahead of the first boxing competition at the Games \u2014 they were sharing in that history, but excelling at the top of two different worlds.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n Taylor playing for Ireland in 2006.<\/p>\n

Source: Andrew Paton\/INPHO<\/p>\n

\u201cKatie is so shy. When we were on the buses [to games and training] she wouldn\u2019t say anything,\u201d O\u2019Toole says. \u201cMe and Katie carried the Olympic torch together, and she was so nervous, pulling on me all nervous like \u2018Olivia, Olivia, Olivia.\u2019 To me! I should have been like that with her.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Kathleen McNamee turns back time to Katie Taylor\u2019s glittering soccer career before she took the boxing world by storm.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0I always thought that it was the players who felt the most pressure when it came to matches, but having written my first match report on the Treaty United and Cork City game last weekend, my opinion has changed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019m going to be a bit biased and say that the pressure of reporting on a game is more intense than playing in one, now that I\u2019ve switched roles from a player to a journalist, but honestly, last Friday, I\u2019ve never felt pressure like the pressure I experienced when I was playing in games.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s said that it\u2019s difficult to replicate the feeling a player gets after winning a game and that when a player retires, he will never experience the high of scoring a winning goal, but I\u2019m not so sure that is true now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Former Cork City striker Graham Cummins on the move from the pitch to the press box for The Evening Echo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0It\u2019s mighty hot at 7:30 a.m. on an overcast March day in \u201cTitletown.\u201d That\u2019s Tuscaloosa, for the unacquainted, where the Alabama Crimson Tide reside\u2014the Death Star of college football, a team that\u2019s won six national titles in the last 13 years. DeVonta Smith, the latest in a line of wunderkind wide receivers from \u2018Bama, is walking into coach Nick Saban\u2019s castle\u2014err, training facility\u2014for an early workout session. Last season, Smith shredded record books for the SEC (most receiving touchdowns in a season with 23), \u2018Bama (most receiving yards in a season with 1,856), and the country (46 touchdowns in his college career, the most ever by a Power 5 player). He even had 12 catches, 215 yards and three scores in the national title game, which Alabama won. Excuse me, he did all of that just in the first half.<\/em><\/p>\n

DeVonta Smith had a remarkable journey to the NFL Draft, as brilliantly told by Tyler R. Tynes for British GQ.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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