‘I don’t really think about the Olympics anymore’ – Ireland’s gold star Daniel Wiffen has already parked Paris and is eyeing LA 2028

He gets another white sock and out pops his Olympic bronze medal. This kind of show-and-tell is rarer than you’d imagine; Wiffen reckons it’s a month since he last looked at his Olympic medals besides when he needs to take them to events with him. The purpose of this de-socking is to show the Irish Independent over Zoom how his gold medal hasn’t faded in colour since the Paris Games, while his bronze medal has discoloured in parts.