As a prominent member of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association, O'Toole had been approached to make representations on behalf of the victims of the George Gibney scandal.[3] Gibney, who coached O'Toole until he became aware of these allegations, criticised O'Toole publicly during the 1992 Olympics. His complaints were ignored and led to a major investigation into the incidents and ultimately to the disbandment of the IASA and the creation of Swim Ireland.[4]
Since his retirement from professional swimming, O'Toole has been a practising Orthopedic surgeon with a specialist interest in adult arthritis (both hip and knee) and knee sports injuries. He also has a keen interest in musculoskeletal cancer (bone and soft tissue tumours).[5] He continued to provide expert analysis for RTÉ Sport's Olympic swimming coverage.[6][7]
Referencesedit
^. Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
^RTÉ's Olympic TV coverage until 2012 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^"Darragh Maloney interviews Gary O'Toole (2012)". RTÉ Archives. 2012.
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gary, toole, retired, irish, olympic, swimmer, represented, ireland, seoul, barcelona, games, personal, informationfull, namegary, charles, toolenationalityirishborn, 1968, august, 1968, irelandheight1, weight73, sportsportswimmingstrokesbreaststroke, medleyme. Gary O Toole is a retired Irish Olympic swimmer He represented Ireland at the Seoul and Barcelona Games 1 Gary O ToolePersonal informationFull nameGary Charles O TooleNationalityIrishBorn 1968 08 06 6 August 1968 age 55 IrelandHeight1 80 m 5 ft 11 in Weight73 kg 161 lb SportSportSwimmingStrokesBreaststroke MedleyMedal record Men s Swimming Representing Ireland European Championships Long Course 1989 Bonn 200 m breaststroke Summer Universiade 1991 Sheffield 200 m breaststroke While studying at University College Dublin O Toole won a 200 m breaststroke silver medal at the 1989 European Long Course Championships in Bonn He also won a gold medal at the World University Championships in 1991 when representing University College Dublin and UCD He helped to break 5 National relay records including Short Course and Long Course 2 As a prominent member of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association O Toole had been approached to make representations on behalf of the victims of the George Gibney scandal 3 Gibney who coached O Toole until he became aware of these allegations criticised O Toole publicly during the 1992 Olympics His complaints were ignored and led to a major investigation into the incidents and ultimately to the disbandment of the IASA and the creation of Swim Ireland 4 Since his retirement from professional swimming O Toole has been a practising Orthopedic surgeon with a specialist interest in adult arthritis both hip and knee and knee sports injuries He also has a keen interest in musculoskeletal cancer bone and soft tissue tumours 5 He continued to provide expert analysis for RTE Sport s Olympic swimming coverage 6 7 References edit Gary O Toole Sports Reference 2014 Archived from the original on 24 September 2013 Retrieved 25 March 2014 Irish Records Swim Ireland Archived from the original on 24 September 2008 via WayBack Machine McCarthy Justine 7 February 1998 The Drowning of the Truth Independent ie Swim Ireland move to prevent early release Independent ie Archived from the original on 5 October 2008 Retrieved 20 September 2008 Mr Gary O Toole Beacon Hospital RTE s Olympic TV coverage until 2012Archived 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Darragh Maloney interviews Gary O Toole 2012 RTE Archives 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gary O 27Toole amp oldid 1220623018, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
