{"id":144580,"date":"2025-11-17T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:25:16","slug":"the-indo-daily-troubled-waters-ep-1-theyre-messing-with-his-head-paul-kimmages-journey-inside-the-toxic-world-of-irish-rowings-high-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144580\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Troubled Waters Ep 1 \u2013 \u2018They\u2019re messing with his head\u2019: Paul Kimmage\u2019s journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing\u2019s High Performance Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Indo Daily\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/046d2d81-ca4f-48eb-adba-a9e6ca323db9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Indo Daily<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish rowing has delivered some of the country\u2019s greatest sporting moments. But behind the medals and headlines, troubling questions have emerged about the environment within the High Performance Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In this first episode of our two-part special, Kevin Doyle is joined by Sunday Independent journalist Paul Kimmage, whose reporting has examined allegations around communication, culture and athlete welfare within the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kimmage outlines how the story began in 2023 with an email from the mother of Olympic medallists Gary and Paul O\u2019Donovan, and how that message prompted him to start digging into concerns being privately raised by a number of current and former rowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Through transcripts, interviews and records shared by athletes, Kimmage charts the arrival of High Performance Director Antonio Maurogiovanni in 2017, the reaction of senior rowers to his coaching style, and claims that tensions grew during training camps and squad selections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The episode also looks at the experience of rower Monika Dukarska, who documented how pressures around performance, injury, selection and communication affected her on the road to the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We want to earn your trust and are members of the Trust Project. See our ethics policies at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/about-us\/our-journalism\/a2146721679.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">independent.ie\/ourjournalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indo Daily Irish rowing has delivered some of the country\u2019s greatest sporting moments. 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