Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

That would seem like common sense to most people, I'd think. Though judging from what the head guy in the association is saying, you'd wonder how much of that will apply. Don't know much about it, but seems to me he could have made his point here in a less crude manner than this.

https://www.newstalk.com/sport/blame-the-athletes-not-the-horses-says-modern-pentathlon-chief-1235943

He seems to be a bit of a jerk, speaking so disparagingly of athletes in his own sport like this. Sounds like a Pat Hickey or John Delaney type. The German federation say they have their own proposals for rule changes and had already come up with them even before yesterday's incidents.

Schleu says btw that she wanted to use a replacement horse but was refused by the officials. I wonder if our friend above is trying to deflect, deflect, deflect.

Fantastic performance from Emily Kay in the cycling finishing in 13th place overall. C’mon Kellie

Gold!!! Amazing Kellie 🙂

Wonderful,

That second round was exquisite.

Gold medal boxer and ambassador for Ireland.

Wait for it, RTE will go for an ad break 🙄

The state of her poor Mammy!!!

No break on TV anyway. Unsure about player.

Epic stuff, Kellie stormed that fight. Gold!!

That was fantastic from Harrington. The opponent was tough but suited her in a way and the tactics given to her by the team were spot on. She still had to deliver the performance in the ring though and she did that to great effect.

A brilliant win that she had to work really hard for, in both the semi final and the final.

I think I'm correct in saying that's the first time we have won two gold medals from two different competitors since 1932 and the first time we have won two gold medals in two different sports ever.

Is this now our greatest ever Olympics? 2012 had six medals but only one gold and, while 1996 had three gold medals, they were all by the same person and nobody else in the team won a medal that whole Olympics. 2020+1 is certainly up there with the best of them for us now.

It's one less medal than 1956 too, but one more gold so maybe that is better.

Still in awe of Kellies performance, not just winning but how she boxed and controlled the fight. First two minutes a bit dodgy, but just took over from there. Seemed to box freely with no pressure weighing her down. Just superb.

I had to watch it on the BBC, also where I watched the semi final bout. They have given Kellie so much time, praise,compliments and coverage. It is great to see. They have shown all this again this morning in and around Lauren Price winning gold for GB.

Price has a great story too, they had a nice piece on her, raised by Grandparents as her parents were unable to care for her. They had a bit when she was at school and she had said she had three dreams - play football for Wales, become a kickboxing world champion and go to the Olympics. Her teacher had laughed according to her Grandmother who told her she shouldn't crush children's dreams. She has now achieved all of them.

This has been such an enjoyable last morning for me, I hope plenty of kids can take pride from Kellie and that we nurture the next generation of Olympians. Seeing the Irish flag and hearing our anthem on the grandest of stages is such a proud moment.