Kellie Harrington’s Tokyo Gold Named “Magic Moment of the Year” By Independent.ie Sport.

Kellie Harrington’s gold medal win at the Tokyo Olympic Games has been voted Magic Moment of the Year by readers of Independent.ie Sport.

The Independent.ie Sport 2021 Award winners were announced this morning.

Independent.ie Sports journalist, Vincent Hogan, writes ” Commanding the rapt attention of your people has historically proved a millstone around Irish necks at that quadrennial flag-waving extravaganza known as an Olympics.

Fear subsumes talent as the sheer scale of the Games settles around fragile ribcages, expectation suddenly becoming a terrible liability for athletes unused to such national commotion. The Olympics is a wreckers-yard for flustered champions, a high stage on which the vast majority become weighed down by inarticulate dread.

Commanding the rapt attention of your people has historically proved a millstone around Irish necks at that quadrennial flag-waving extravaganza known as an Olympics.

Fear subsumes talent as the sheer scale of the Games settles around fragile ribcages, expectation suddenly becoming a terrible liability for athletes unused to such national commotion. The Olympics is a wreckers-yard for flustered champions, a high stage on which the vast majority become weighed down by inarticulate dread. “

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Portland Row’s Kellie Harrington, of St. Mary’s BC, claimed the hearts of a nation when she won gold after a thrilling bout against fellow World Champion, Brazilian Beatriz Ferreira in Tokyo.

She made it to the final after victories over Italy’s Rebecca Nicoli, Algeria’s Imane Khelif, and Thailand’s Sudaporn Seesondee