Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

Her behaviour was a disgrace. Behaving like a spoilt petulant child all because a horse was uncooperative. Grown adult..

Fin 😰

Role on Para olympics in 2 weeks and off course championship and premiership. Also business end of GAA

But abusing the horse when it doesn't do what you want is how equestrian sports work

Yep...at least it's only three years until Paris. And obviously the Paralympics and the Winter Olympics before then, though understandably neither will capture the public imagination in the same way as the main event does. Hopefully boards is still around for 2024 and there will a build up thread to take us through until then.

Good article on some of Irelands earliest (pre independence) Olympians from Epic museum

Just watched Kellie. 30-27 for me. Not sure how they scored rd 1 for Brazilian. Rd three the closest!

I took the last 2 weeks off work and completely immersed myself in the Games, living all the highs and lows. I've been running off average of 5 hours sleep per night. Now it's all over, and there just feels like there's a hole in my heart. 😔

Other sporting events like the World Cup etc, go on much longer and wind down as the event goes on, with less matches taking place, more time between matches. This prepares you for the end. The Olympics on the other hand just gets busier and busier as it progresses, then BAM, suddenly it's gone, taken away from us. Cold turkey. Genuinely feeling very upset it's over and am on such a downer. Maybe some might think that's ridiculous, but that's how much I love the Olympic Games. I'm sure I'll be fine in a day or two, but right now I don't want to let go of it. 😞

The flame being extinguished gets me every time.

Right now, every other sporting event feels so underwhelming in comparison to the Olympics, that I can't get excited about any of them. That said, only a 6 month wait to the Winter Games offers comfort.

Last time in Rio, the come down wasn't near as bad, as I was over there, went out on the lash the night of closing ceremony and the nights after, including a small holiday elsewhere in Brazil. I also knew I'd be spending a week or so catching up on everything I missed on the RTE Player when I got home, so in my head, the Games weren't over, and I was able to wean myself off them (you see a lot more of the Games at home than when you are actually there).

Anyone else feeling the same as me?

Even just typing this is therapeutic. I was actually supposed to go to Tokyo in the media, but I made a late call to skip it, and it was the best decision I've ever made. This has been one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left my living room.

Greatest moment? Warholm 45.9x for me..

Kellie and the rowers, of course!

The old man pulling a sour grapes on it

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40355087.html

Just in terms of results, because everything else gets lost in the chase for medals and golds, we had a really solid Olympics overall with 18 top ten placings across all events - or 19 even if you were to include Diver in the marathon. And that doesn't include a few others who were closer to success than their final position suggests - like Shane Lowry and Natalya Coyle. I doubt we've achieved that level of consistent performance too often if at all in previous Olympics.

O'Donovan/McCarthy - Rowing         🥇

Kellie Harrington - Boxing             🥇

Women's Fours - Rowing 🥉

Aidan Walsh - Boxing                      🥉

Rory McIlroy - Golf                  T4️⃣

Stephanie Meadow - Golf          7️⃣

Rhys McClenaghan - Gymnastics     7️⃣

Cian O'Connor - Showjumping       T7️⃣

Kurt Walker - Boxing             ®️8️⃣

Mona McSharry - Swimming         8️⃣ 

4x400m Mixed Relay - Athletics   8️⃣

Casey/Cremen - Rowing                8️⃣

Eventing Team - Equestrian         8️⃣

Tom Barr - Athletics              9️⃣

Brendan Boyce - Athletics      🔟

Byrne/Doyle - Rowing                 🔟

Women's Hockey Team                🔟

Men's Sevens Rugby Team          🔟

Sinead Diver - Athletics (rep. 🇦🇺)   🔟

Could at least have tried to make it even minutely credible by not trying to claim R2!

Yes, agree all the way. There's something really beautiful and pure about the Olympic Games and it's completely unlike any other sporting event (perhaps the fact that every country in the world competes in it and all in the same two week window). Rory McIlroy says he was almost shocked to realise that he was not competing in 'just another golfing tournament' and that it was something very special which meant a huge deal to everyone. Even he has caught the Olympic bug and says he can't wait for Paris.

A big plus for me was the way that competitors from multiple disciplines were constantly supporting each other on the Irish team. Some of the rowers and hockey players were at the boxing matches and Natalya Coyle showed up at Kellie's fight today. There was a real sense of it all being one team, lovely to see.

The Olympics are great for those team moments, one that sticks out is the Italian high jump fella waiting at the end of the 100m.

In the smaller sports too you usually have a core group of competitors who follow each other around the world all year and would get on really well

Got eurosport relatively late for the climbing so will start watching bits and pieces back for the rest of the month that interests me like the Karate and the surfing. I care less about the results and more about seeing what they are like as sports so knowing the result does little.

On the boxing it was a great fight. Obviously I agree with the result but I am biased and am no boxing judge. The dad has a little bit of sour grapes but it did seem like a tough fight and a parent will always be biased.

Really enjoyed the games. Worrying for the covid hit to Japan from it. There did seem to be a few hiccups with organising things (starting a triathalon into a motor boat, placing relay runners in the wrong place) but overall an incredible watch and great to see what humans are capable of and see a bit more life in the world. Certainly there is a bigger and bigger corporate element to the games which is frustrating but seeing the athletes take incredible joy in competing and winning after their hard work for the last number of years has been incredible and well the corporate nature of events is everywhere in the world now and won't be solved/avoided by the games.