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Michael Turnbull

'The longest ten seconds' Aidan Walsh on his Olympic Boxing bronze medal at the Tokyo games

When Aidan Walsh flew out to Tokyo a year after he should have he wasn't considered a favourite for a medal. Instead he proved many of his doubters wrong and ended up standing proudly on the pdium with a bronze medal in the bag.

Walsh etched himself into Irish sporting folklore when he won his medal in the quarter-finals of the mens Welterweight boxing event at the Covid-19 delayed Tokyo Olympics.

Now, as part of an Olympic Federation of Ireland mini-series, he's decided to reveal his inner emotions as the biggest moment of his life so far began to unfold.

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