Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

Sure you can't blame them, a nice jolly on tax payers money. They'll have a full crew there too for the radio and the news too, not just RTÉ sport.

On the coverage, the catch up show with Darragh Moloney is generally excellent. Darragh himself is a good pro, and many of the experts are very good too, Andy Lee on the boxing in particular, and Bree on the swimming. Then you have Timmy commentating on the basketball, brilliant. Credit where it's due.

Huge contrast between it and the BBC evening coverage... Claire fvckin Balding and Alex Scott..... Jesus Wept. Balding just guffawing and Scott comes across as thick as a plank.... She may not be but certainly is less than knowledgeable about any of the sports, and is very stuttery and can't read the autoque half the time.

Surely there are better broadcasting professional in the UK than these pair,. I'm all for equal opportunity, but these pair have no place bear a prime time tv show like this.

fair play if the golfers do get a medal but I much prefer rowers and boxers doing welll. Great stories trying to make the Olympics as oppose to millionaire golfers

Ciara Peelo had a credible explanation for this on the news earlier.... now, I've no idea if she's right or not, but it makes sense to me....

Firstly, it was a spot check of equipment, so possibly the harness wasn't weighed before during this week.

Secondly, if the harness was an older one it may have lost some of its water repellency, and there's foam inside it - so may have soaked up more water than a newer one would (and having plenty older sailing gear, I can definitely attest that this is a thing!), so stayed fractionally over the allowed weight.

Now, like I say, I have no idea if that's the actual reason, but it's a perfectly reasonable explanation, so could be the case.

Whatever happened, hopefully the guys can put it behind them and keep up the form they've had so far this week and claw their way back into the top 10 🤞

This is exactly what ive been thinking all day, there could be a hole in one of the pad pockets allowing more water to directly soak in and not drain out in the 1 minute for measuring or like you say it simply lost is water repellency.

It does beg the question why things like this werent weighed and checked that they pass the rules beforehand but I can also understand not thinking to check something like a harness.

Kellie Harrington unanimous points victory.

Onwards!

Yes! Third medal. Really like Aidan Walsh as a boxer. Turning into a very good first week of the games.

Well done Aidan - know we are getting used to winning medals when we go straight to another event 😆

Both golfers T4 at the end of their rounds, although there are others coming up behind them with holes in hand. They're well positioned for the weekend though.

A real shame there isn't a team event using combined scores - we'd almost certainly be in gold medal position.

The hockey team conceded a late goal to lose to India, they were good defensively but hopeless going forward. They will probably need a result against the Brits in their last game tomorrow to progress to the quarters, unless South Africa do them a favour. On the plus side they will know what they need before the game starts and GB have nothing really to play for in the game, so you'd never know.

Sunday looking like a really interesting day with the final round of the golf, McClenaghan in the pommel horse final, Walker boxing for a medal and Walsh boxing for a minimum silver medal.

great win by Aidan and Harrington one fight away from a medal also fingers crossed for both🤞

What's T4 ?

Kurt Anthony also has a quarterfinal in a few days time.

@breezy1985 T4 is Tied for 4th.

Apparently only a minor sprain and they think he will make the semi final.

BMX being shown on BBC now - jaysus, it's nuts!! Brilliant!!!!

Just seeing clips now! Really fun to watch so high speed

Will Rory catch fire like a vampire in sunlight if he has to stand in front of the tricolour on a podium?