‘I hope to keep Craig close to me for the next few days’ – Irish flagbearer Sarah Lavin on an emotional Olympics

Lavin and Shane Lowry were today announced as the flagbearers for Ireland in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the Seine tonight.

Rally driver Breen died tragically last year after he sustained fatal injuries during a freak accident in Croatia. Months later, Lavin said in an interview that her heart was broken.

An emotional Lavin said today she will keep Breen’s memory with her as she gears up to compete in her second Olympics after a difficult few years.

“I’m running for a lot. And I hope to keep Craig close to me for the next few days as always,” Lavin said today at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris before describing how different this time is to Tokyo three years ago. “It had been incredibly difficult from a performance perspective going into Tokyo. I’d broken 13 seconds once and this time round I think I’ve qualified 10 times in the last 12 months for this Games. I was the last person on the plane the last time round, I think I was the first from the…

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