Athletics 2021

Beautiful.

The Olympic Federation has indicated that athletes had to be registered by 4th July. So presumably those selected already know if theyre going. And those who didnt make it already know.

To be honest the latest Olympic news release makes no sense.
They state that Team Ireland consists of 79 officially selected athletes. By my reckoning there is 78 (but a Dressage rider was indicated and no official announcement). They dont seem to be counting Travelling Reserves.
For the record Cycling 7, Equestrian 7 (inc Dressage), Boxing 7, Diving 2, TKD 1, Triathlon 2. Gymnastics 2, Canoeing 1, Rowing 13, Sailing 3, Mod Pentathon 1, Badminton 1, Golf 4, Hockey 16, Rugby 12.
This "78 or 79" does not seem to include 7 Athletics already announced.
They say the closing date for registering athletes is 4pm Monday July 5th.
They say that there are over 110 spots confirmed and official announcements still to come for five sports which I think are
Swimming (six individuals and at least one relay team qualified)
Judo (2 qualified)
Shooting (one invitational place)
Dressage maybe 1.
And Athletics.....maybe 26 (7 Road athletes already announced) 4 Entry standards (Mageean Finn, Barr, English) 4 Men rankings (2x200, 1x1500, 1 Walk) 7 Female Rankings (P Healy, Lavin, Flanagan SHealy, 3x800) and the relay maybe just four as Healy and Barr are already o plane)
But all of this 78 or 79 plus (26, 10, 1, 2,1) is 117 ish and higher than 110.
So as OFIs maths is a bit questionable maybe the date 5th July is not right.
But if the relay athletes are already nominated, selected and even registered, then appeals are too late (presumably).
I would have expected appeal/s or whatever.
More so I would have expected "leaks"

Dodge wrote: »

5th July was the deadline for federations to register names with IOC. The OFI held off naming athletes and swimmers because if some other countries decline their quotas, they can be redistributed. That’s why they haven’t given an official final tally yet.

They’ve named athletes in sports where they know that won’t happen (ie they know where Ireland won’t gain anything)

They’re also announcing teams one or two a day for maximum exposure

Yes, I saw the "maximum exposure" as kinda build up and one team per day gives a kinda equal billing to "big" and "small sports".
But thanx for pointing out the "quota" thing...
apparently 81 was the highest total ever sent. We are way past that now. (of course team sports help but a good trend to see)

Rhasidat Adeleke through to the women's 100m final in the European Juniors very comfortably. Israel Olatunde finished 3rd in his semi, 10th overall.

Adeleke's final is at 15:20 tomorrow.

Griggs looked good, so to mcphillips.

will be suprised if Rhasidat doesn't win and set a pb, she has cruised through, only the dutch girl has gone below 11.40 and that was a pb slower than hers.

Rhashidat cruises through,

McDonnell just about gets in too.

She's a ferocious talent. Goodness knows what she'll be like in two or three years time if she keeps on improving like this.

How on earth did she not make the Olympic team btw? She's arguably the No.1 athlete in the country at the moment and ahead of Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageean in terms of talent.

O'conner up to 5th in the decathlon, 4 pbs from 5 events . <50points from 3rd.

Sharlene Mawdsley just ran 51.70.

So unlucky for her

That is unreal!

Full videos of all the finals are up now at this link:

Unreal wins from the middle distance lads, such brave and commanding performances great to see from green vests.