Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

Boyce still in the front group of 22 at the halfway stage of the 50km walk. Wright is almost 3 minutes further back.

I know the marathon gets all the glory but this is some war of attrition for 3.5 to 4 hours.

The pentathlon will be all about the ride today.

Based on recent form in the swim and laser run Schleu of Germany already has it won if she avoids disaster, about 60 points in hand assuming an approximately equal ride to the chasers.

After her it looks very very close between Coyle, Kim, Sotero and French - difficult to see a bolter from the pack ASSUMING no ride disasters from those in medal contention (which is a big assumption admittedly).

Just looking for some luck firstly in the horse draw and then in the round itself. There are 18 horses for 36 athletes going in reverse order so the leaders will get to see their horse ridden in an earlier round and have some idea of their chance based on that.

Sive Brassil is not at these Olympics purely because she drew an absolute donkey in an important ranking event. Crossing everything now for some good karma for Tal on what could be a monumental day in the history of Ireland's involvement in this niche sport.

Where can you find the current overall score? Can’t see it on the Olympics site.

13th in the Swim.

Is it only one bonus point awarded for each victory?

seems like the average score in the swimming was much higher than in the fencing, so I thought maybe each victory in the fencing bonus round would give 5-10 points. But the commentator keeps referring to a single point gained for each bout.

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Also, my quads/glutes are hurting just watching this 🥺

So this is pretty insignificant compared to yesterday and the swimming this morning.

I like the format though.

Don't feed him. He throws out one lined crap every now and again looking to be edgy.

Watch for how the horses go in their first rounds for the lower half of the field.

Schleu will be riding same horse as Gubaydulina who is 19th

Then the medal contenders - Kim will be on Kandil's horse, Tal on the Uzbekistan girl's, Sotero on Shimazau's, Gulya on Takamiya's and French on Prokopenko's.

Irish fans must pray for carnage all around from the early riders, the bigger and more complex the course the better for Tal. She got her top 10s in London and Rio thanks to her clear rounds when all around were having their troubles. Just one more time on what will probably be the final competitive ride of her career.

Come on!

Cuba's third boxing gold medal of this Olympics.

Is it an alt account of that bizarre weirdo who's been stinking up the place over the last few days?

Do you every worry about how much time you spend dong this?.... think of all those rubbish poems you could be working on. Think I'm going to onto the creative writing thread to have a good laugh at them. I might even post a few up here for everyone else to 'enjoy'

They keep reappearing under new names 🙄