Former Republic of Ireland hero Mark Kinsella is a very proud father this evening after his daughter Alice helped secure a bronze medal for Team GB at the Olympics earlier today.
Russia won gold as the USA got their hands on silver, pipping the British athletes to the post.
Just like her father was a big player for Ireland at the 2002 World Cup in Japan, Alice was key member of Great Britain’s Artistic gymnastics team almost two decades on from her father’s trip east.
Today, 20-year-old Alice helped create history by securing a bronze medal at the Games on the central Pacific coast.
Kinsella produced a professional display alongside Amelie Morgan and twins Jennifer and Jessica Gadriova to fight back to claim Britain's first women's gymnastics team medal for almost a century.
The performance has received kudos from a wealth of people including one of her father’s former clubs.
Posting on Twitter, Charlton Athletic said: “An Olympic bronze medal for Charlton legend Mark Kinsella’s daughter. Congratulations, Alice!”
Walsall FC, who Mark Kinsella’s son Liam plays for also joined in on the action.
“Congratulations to Liam’s sister Alice and the gymnastics team for winning a bronze medal! Fantastic achievement,” the football club said on Twitter.
You must go back in history to 1928 and the Olympics in the Netherlands, to be exact, to see when the British women last won a medal in gymnastics.
Despite being only 20 years old, Kinsella was the more experienced athlete in the quartet and used all her knowledge to get the girls over the line in Tokyo in what is her highest-ranking achievement to date following a gold medal at the European Championships two-years-ago.
