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Agonising near misses nothing new even as Ireland reaches greater Olympic heights
Maybe you’ve heard the story of the stirrup and the shoe already. Maybe you haven’t. If you haven’t then all you need to know here is that Daniel Coyle was a handful of fences away from an Olympic medal jump-off when it all fell apart.We mean that …