You've got an extraordinary history in sport and having Michael Carruth run with it this morning symbolises what it's all about.

BBC: Olympic torch: Relay visits Dublin and Belfast on day 19

Shane Carruth's 2004 film "Primer, " for example, is so complex and methodical that fanatical bloggers have posted flow charts containing thousands of words of plot summary.

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Filming with an unflinching biomorphic intimacy, as if looking at the body, inside and out, through a microscope, Carruth quickly leapfrogs over the grotesque and into the transcendent.

NEWYORKER: Upstream Color

At the start of this new drama by Shane Carruth, a botanist brushes blue dust from a plant and makes infusions and capsules from worms that he sifts from its soil.

NEWYORKER: Upstream Color

Carruth and long-time friend McCullogh were team-mates representing Ireland at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona where McCullough, from County Antrim, took silver in the bantamweight division and Carruth, from Dublin, won gold at welterweight.

BBC: Olympic torch: Relay visits Dublin and Belfast on day 19