The Olympic Games 2024

Connor O Leary surfing for Japan. Mother Akeimi from Japan Father Finbar from Cronulla neither a surfing strong hold.

This pidcock fella is a machine! Still a chance at gold despite puncture.

The women's mountain bike race yesterday was also very enjoyable.

Soccer and Rugby are much better for that. Australia, Canada, USA and NZ all have multiple players through Irish Lineage.

Swimmer from Nepal has an Irish mother:

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/sports/other/olympic-swimmer-representing-nepal-boasts-proud-cork-roots-and-trained-in-fermoy/ar-BB1qJXRy

actually plenty a fine wave can be caught off Cronulla beach (one of NSW’s finest IMO)😏

Timmy is great. I know he’s like a lad that spends way too much time watching NBA matches and has all the lingo but forgets he’s from Cork and not Brooklyn! It’s just very funny though and great for those of us who aren’t regular basketball viewers.

Great to hear Gerry Kelly still doing the gymnastics coverage. The Olympics is great for bringing these guys out of the woodwork. It’s great to hear them.

Ireland's first medal!

Christ leave Joanne Cantwell horsing away on the Sunday Gabe. She guys in well there but doing Olympic coverage she’s a dose to listen to. Back in the day Michael Lyster was a GAA only presenter and far okay to him but I thought he was good at his job full stop and wouldn’t have been to bad in general sport. Time to leave the GAA crowd back doing GAA only.

Hate the Allianz stinger at the start and end of each ad break. I presumed it’s Rashida Adeleke they’re showing but with their corporate colours and it being so fast it looks like a Team GB or USA athlete. It’s just shown way too much

Isn’t Claire whatshername already out there along with Joe Stack and a few others. Jacqui is reasonably useful but Des should have been put out to pasture ages ago. He’s fairly useless.

NICE ONE, DANIEL!!

GOLD!! 🙂

ah come one now, there’s absolutely **** all of us.

That’s the standard for most of our medal winners and probably a lot of other countries medal winners as well. In athletics and swimming there isn’t much point us all racing each other. The people on podiums benefit from sports programs at us, uk universities or universities elsewhere. That’s where the competition is.

We can’t be all things to all sports. We can’t train everybody 100% internally. We’re a small country. That we are winning anything is particularly impressive when most young people are hoovered up by the domestic dead end that is the GAA.

Feck sake. RTE seem to have been banging on about Daniel Wiffen and Mona McSharry for the last 20-30 minutes. I actually popped out to do a few bits. Meanwhile there’s a sculls going on with a girl from Northern Ireland competing though she’s on Team GB but, all the sane, it’d be something to watch. I have a suspicion that there are broadcaster packages available for combos of specific events and some general highlights. Strikes me that RTE went for the value pack and are filling in the remaining time with ads, replays and talking shîte.

No idea but the volume of ads is getting to me at this stage. It’s almost US tv bad this time around. The ad breaks are quite long as well. They’re looking to take in on ad revenue I guess but aren’t caring that they’re cutting off their nose to spite their face as it’ll drive lots of viewers elsewhere. Discovery+ gets you all you can watch fur €7 and there’s always the BBC often showing the sage effects so Pele can switch during the RTE ad breaks and probably won’t come back. I never remember it being as bad as this time round but maybe my memory is short!

That explains I guess why sailing and everting are being largely ignored as they take time to show. I miss that aspect though. Mind you they deal only covers LA abd wherever us after that. I wonder how many hits RTE currently have? Not too keen if must be says on stuff like the Olympics going predominantly to streaming platforms. I suppose tge works is changing though avc the days of RTE showing a smorgasbord of sports ask over the place are gone now.

I would say 2 in rowing plus we have a couple of sailing chances, medal race for the Skiff tomorrow and Eve McMahon could go well in Dinghy although maybe an Olympics to soon for her. We need golfers to get off to a good start as well, small field gets strung out. Also the real equestrian to come.

Anyknd else getting this loading some of the pastbolympic events on discovery+? It’s very annoying and not a good look for them during the Olympics!

The expert says every competitor is an excellent rider lol, as if it needs saying 😄

Yeah he’s a bit too reticent to say anything bad about any of the other competitors. At one point the commentator mentioned that Ireland needed to have the likes of ZUK, USA pick up a few more faults while the expert jumped in saying that want very sporting and we should hope they all jump clear round but Ireland jumps better or some such.

There is plenty more controversy besides gender. Same old boxing organisation by the looks of it. It seems inherently corrupt regardless of who is organising the events.

This is so annoying. I'm watching this afternoon's coverage on the RTE player. I'm trying to skip past the horsey business, cos that's not for me. I don't know when it ends though, and everytime I skip a bit forward I have to watch that ad for Planet of the bleedin Apes.