Brendan Moran was hoping for a quiet day. The Olympics always has some surprise – doped horses, marathon-crashing priests – but this morning seemed like an opportunity for some downtime. “There’s always something that gets thrown up, it’s the nature of the games,” says the acclaimed photographer with Sportsfile. The 2016 Olympics had been no different. The Irish boxers had been the story from the moment the boxer Michael O’Reilly’s failed drugs test became news. It had continued from there with the defeat of Michael Conlan in controversial circumstance. In the background the simmering news story of the arrest of…

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