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Paris 2024: Curtain drawn on 'phenomenal partnership' after Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal win silver at Paris Paralympics

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And so all good things must come to an end.And after a decade competing together, with three gold and three silver Paralympic medals, five World Championship road titles and a bronze at last year's worlds in the bag, Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have now brought the curtain down on one of Irish sport's greatest pairings.The final act was played out on Sunday at Paris 2024, with the pair taking silver in the women's B 3000m individual pursuit.Dunlevy and McCrystal missed out on gold by 2.166 seconds to Britain's Sophie Unwin and her pilot Jenny Holl, having led for the first two-thirds of the final ride-off at the National Velodrome.A time of 3:21.315 which was just under a second down on the mark they set in the morning's qualifying session.

Afterwards they confirmed that was their final ride together. LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW We need your consent to load this rte-player content We use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Manage Preferences In many respects it was the perfect relationship, as Eve McCrystal outlined on RTÉ Radio's News at One: "We met up ten years ago.

Katie was over in Swords when we met up and I was never on a tandem before. She had been to London Paralympics with a different pilot.

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