Brother Colm O'Connell and David Rudisha .

Take a bow , not necessarily in that order . Fantastic performance tonight from Rudisha , reminded me a bit of Herb Elliott , who was one of the most unbeatable looking athletes to ever grace a track .

Rudisha broke the world 800 metre record tonight , the only world record to be broken so far in the  Olympic athletics , and for the first time in history in an 800 metre race every athlete beat their previous best for the season or their best ever . Some race . And I am open to correction , but I think the bronze medal winner in the race shares the same trainer as the winner . 

Brother Colm is David Rudisha's trainer  , he restricts himself to looking after 4 or 5 athletes only , takes no payment . No fancy dan stuff regarding training , no Team Rudisha or Team Colm , just hard work and common sense , allied to natural talent ( runners and trainer obviously , you cant have one without the other ) .

Colm has trained so many world championship winning athletes and Olympic gold medallists he has lost track of the number .  All of them have been associated with his school as pupils in some form or other .

The world has been watching , setting up training establishments willy nilly locally to train at altitude , but personally I do not think it is the altitude  , I think the success comes from local talent ( possibly genetic ) , beautifully handled and prepared . History will judge on that , but my money will still be on Brother Colm and his charges .

The natives down in Mallow should be raising a glass to one of their best exports tonight .  Brother Colm might be a candidate for "foreign Irishman of the year" if there is such a thing . He might grace a platform with Katie who will be "Irish woman of the year" after today .

Heart warming story / happening , particularly in these days where nearly everybody has the "whats in it for me" attitude . Sometime the nice guys come up trumps . And on the biggest stage in the world currently .