Ireland's two man bobsleigh team of Pete Donaghue and Paul Kiernan put in a respectable performance to finish 26th out of 37 finishers in Salt Lake City late on Sunday night. The pair acquitted themselves well over the four runs against the world's best, but were no match for the pacesetters, with Germany eventually taking the gold medal.
In fact the battle for gold was so close that the German and Swiss teams had exactly the same aggregate time after three runs, with Germany taking the gold by 9 one hundredths of a second after the fourth run. 39-year-old German Christoph Langen and brakeman Markus Zimmermann in Germany I pipped Swiss duo Christian Reich and Steve Anderhub to claim gold by the narrowest of margins.
Two-time World Cup champion Martin Annen and brakeman Beat Hefti, also of Switzerland, won the bronze.
Filed by Shane Murray
