Athletics 2024 (Mod note #869)

walshb

Stunning

whatawaster81

Ah brilliant. Delighted for her.

gmisk

Another gold...swoon

Strazdas

At last! She's had such a long wait for a gold medal.

Is she the only Irish athlete to win medals at three different European Championships?

omicron

Gap between last golds, 26 years, gap between this gold: 2 days!

Xander10

The Brits tried to block her in but she had the confidence to know she was good enough

Brilliant

marathon2022

Fantastic, barging through the Brits made it even sweeter

sligeach

Brilliant! I'm so happy for Ciara after all she's been through. I was worried that she was being boxed in, but she found the gap and she powered to victory. We don't get European gold medals every day. Jerry Kiernan will be looking down, and nobody would be more proud of her. Bronze, silver and now gold. 🥇

https://twitter.com/ciaramageean/status/1352377637365288962

I miss Jerry's contributions at these events.

leahyl

wow that was so exciting - well done to Ciara, what a race she ran!!

breffni bogballer

We could end up with 4 golds by next weekend,W400 relays and individual W400

Pherekydes

100m final is over.

walshb

You could see on Ciara’s face as she pushed through that she had lot more left than the other three. Two Brits were cooked

Pherekydes

Jeez, RTE didn't even show the 100m? I'm stunned.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239652#Comment_122239652

Huh? Absolute joke that

maximus15

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239652#Comment_122239652

Suppose they were making up for missing the first gold !

Pherekydes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239674#Comment_122239674

By missing another one? I thought they'd like to see Asher-Smith, Rhasidat's training partner, winning gold. Maybe not…

fits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239652#Comment_122239652

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239652#Comment_122239652

we weee wondering what was going on there. Seems very weird.

Hamachi

Delighted for Ciara Mageean. Very nervous watching it as she was boxed for so long. No doubt once she broke free. A worthy champion. A word for Sarah Healy. She had a decent run in seventh. Hopefully lesson learned that she needs to stick her nose in there a little more.

All three 400m women were excellent. Adeleke qualified with ease and looked very composed. She will surely win a medal, hopefully gold but Kaczmarek will be tough. I was surprised at how nervous Mawdsley looked on the start line. She’s usually a relaxed character. Still job done and hopefully more to come. Fair play to Sophie Becker for really attacking it. 51.54 is a good time and only a few tenths off the final. She has improved so much this year and is an integral part of the relay.

Both Chris O’Donnell and Mark Smyth had creditable runs. I think O’Donnell in particular has a lot more to give this season.

sligeach

Controversy in the women's 3,000m steeplechase, where winner Alice Finot has been disqualified for an "infringement of the inside border" - stepping over the inside border of the track, as she went over the water jump.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/live/cx99qq0w254t

That seems ridiculously harsh. RTE could have covered this had they not been so quick to go off air. The news broke right as they went off air.

Their coverage has been a little bit shoddy, maybe I missed it, but I don't remember seeing the end of the men's hammer, the women's triple jump and the last 2 women in the high jump.

Choochtown

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239600#Comment_122239600

Lovely words from Sonia about Jerry.

Ciara was inspirational. I was worried about how she would deal with the tag of favourite. She showed great mental strength.

Mr. Guappa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239750#Comment_122239750

She's been reinstated now. Agreed on the field events... incredibly frustrating.

Musicrules

Brilliant from Ciara. What an inspiration she is. The way she runs, the way she speaks, she is someone all our aspiring athletes can look up to. This on top of the relay has been the greatest week in Irish athletics in decades and it's not over yet!

Cosmo Kramer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122236470#Comment_122236470

Well tonight lived lived up to the billing again. Obviously delighted for Mageean, overdue a senior gold medal and now she has it. An Olympic medal still an outside shot for her, but you'd never know.

The 400 went pretty much to form, Adeleke has a great lane draw and a real chance chance of gold tomorrow. Hard to see her finishing any lower down than second, she seems to have Klaver's number. Will be tough for Mawdsley to sneak a medal but encouraging to hear her say she was holding a bit back tonight.

The only slight disappointment tonight was Sarah Healy, she has plenty of time to learn of course but she never really got involved and probably should have finished a few places higher than seventh. Still a nagging doubt for now about her ability to perform in the championships unfortunately.

Hamachi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122239879#Comment_122239879

Both Mawdsley and Adeleke have great lane draws for the final in 4 and 6 respectively. I think Mawdsley’s best chance of a medal is Klaver going kamikaze in the first 200m again. There’s a decent chance it will happen as both Adeleke and Kaczmarek are inside her. Fingers crossed for them both tomorrow.

thecretinhop

Waiting 20 plus years for gold. Came into kitchen told Ms cretin hop to be calm dog baby asleep. When she broke through English runners I went mad woke baby cretin up dog started barking and set of alarm in hallway. Nothing in my eyes after talk of jerry I promise... BTW my mammy cancer death aniversary next week. Sport is epic.

Mr Disco

who’s on the women’s 4x400m for Ireland?

Murph_D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122240888#Comment_122240888

See here:

https://www.athleticsireland.ie/news/athletics-ireland-announce-final-european-championships-selections

ariana`

Unbelievable to see 2 Irish gold medals. I let my youngest stay up last night to watch Ciara and I just loved watching it with him - I think my roaring at the TV may have helped the magnitude of it to sink in for him!

Aside from Ciara's race last night I watched a lot of it on the RTE Player app on my phone yesterday while out in the middle of nowhere, half-way to New York, visiting my teenage son during his stint in the Gaeltacht. I have to say I was very impressed with how the Player held up. No complaints from me, aside from the odd blip where coverage was patchy. It was nice to get home to watch on the big screen though 😄

Fr D Maugire

On the watching thing, I prefer less analysis for the chance to see more athletics. On that note I started using the RTE player for the first time ever for the Relay. Did take me a bit to find the stream, but since them I have been watching a mix of RTE2 and the Player. The player uses the Eurovision feed I think, so can watch that when there is too much analysis and vice versa if I want to hear the chatter. Last night I had the TV on RTE2 with the Player on the computer so I didn't miss the 100m which was poor from RTE2. Haven't had any issues with player other than finding the stream sometimes.

yerwanthere123

Finally back home after an amazing week in Rome, three days of which was spent watching the athletics. Incredible experience to witness two Irish golds in person, properly emotional stuff! Very proud of what this small country is producing in athletics at the moment.

Very excited about the women's 400m tonight, imagine if we snagged two medals there?! Obviously hoping Adeleke can get the gold, but I've a feeling Kaczmarek might be too strong.