Watching your brother run the race of his life in an Olympic final is special.
Doing so with the insight that goes with being a top-class athlete yourself makes it even more special.
And it was all this emotion coursing through her veins that Jessie Barr was asked to make sense of her younger sibling Thomas’s historic run in the final of the 400-metre hurdles.
Unsurprisingly the 27-year-old, sat in the RTÉ studio alongside Jerry Kiernan, Sonia O’Sullivan and Derval O’Rourke, found it hard to fight the tears.
WATCH: Waterford's live reaction as Thomas Barr misses out on medal by narrowest of margins https://t.co/UvhnH1JuPO
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) August 18, 2016
The 2012 Olympian was amazed that her brother managed to break the 48 second barrier to record a time of 47.97 as he set his second Irish record in three days.
Watch her reaction below.
If I had an Olympian sibling I would probably react the same way #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/qVJaVz9uuG
— Mikey Stafford (@me_stafford) August 18, 2016
On the latest episode of the GAA Hour Hurling Show Wooly and the lads reflect on a monumental weekend of action. Listen below or subscribe here on iTunes.
