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

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.

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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. I got on the bike in Swords, on all the different roundabouts I had to navigate and I said 'what am I doing?' But I really enjoyed it.

"I'm definitely a team player and I enjoyed the fun and the camaraderie that both of us had on the bike. We got on like a house on fire and have been through so much together. It is a phenomenal partnership."

McCrystal then went on to add