dodge 889 Posted May 21 #161 Share Posted May 21 Add four to the rowers. Awful way for it to end for Sanita Our rowing team is 7 boats and 16 rowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Kramer 6 Posted May 21 #162 Share Posted May 21 A real shame for Sanita, her and the Olympics never went well together for whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 268 Posted May 21 #163 Share Posted May 21 8 minutes ago, Cosmo Kramer said: A real shame for Sanita, her and the Olympics never went well together for whatever reason. There's always one in every sport, world class but just couldn't pull it together at that one moment. Paula Radcliffe springs to mind, arguably Eamonn Coughlan - both clearly utterly world class, both never got Olympic reward. Perhaps you could currently add Novak Djokovic to that group, although he has a bronze or two i think. Sanita, sadly, now joins that admittedly illustrious company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicIRL 5,020 Posted May 21 Author #164 Share Posted May 21 Sad for Sanita but good to get the women's four qualified at least. That brings us to around 110 quotas (not exact since the relay spots in athletics and swimming make it hard to be exact). I think it's looking more likely we will be closer to 125 athletes than 130 athletes which is still mightily impressive. 2024 has been a strange year for us so far, it's so hard to gauge where we are at in terms of medal hopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Kramer 6 Posted May 22 #165 Share Posted May 22 14 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said: There's always one in every sport, world class but just couldn't pull it together at that one moment. Paula Radcliffe springs to mind, arguably Eamonn Coughlan - both clearly utterly world class, both never got Olympic reward. Perhaps you could currently add Novak Djokovic to that group, although he has a bronze or two i think. Sanita, sadly, now joins that admittedly illustrious company. Just need to hope we're not adding Rhys McClenaghan to that list before the summer is out! mpjmcevoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Kramer 6 Posted May 22 #166 Share Posted May 22 (edited) 13 hours ago, OlympicIRL said: Sad for Sanita but good to get the women's four qualified at least. That brings us to around 110 quotas (not exact since the relay spots in athletics and swimming make it hard to be exact). I think it's looking more likely we will be closer to 125 athletes than 130 athletes which is still mightily impressive. 2024 has been a strange year for us so far, it's so hard to gauge where we are at in terms of medal hopes. I currently have us down for 106 qualifiers: Rugby 24 Rowing 16 Hockey 16 Athletics 14 Equestrian 7 Cycling 7 Boxing 6 Swimming 5 Sailing 4 Kayaking 3 Badminton 2 Gymnastics 1 Taekwondo 1 For athletics relays I've included two spots for the mixed 4x400 as Adeleke and Mawdsley are already included as individual qualifiers. For the women's 4x400 I've included three spots as again Adeleke and Mawdsley are individually qualified but Adeleke almost certainly won't run the heats so it seems fair to include spaces for Healy, Becker + one other. We'll likely bring at least two more athletes as relay reserves, but should they be counted in the total if there's no guarantee they'll actually compete in the Olympics? Or should they be treated the same as a hockey reserve goalkeeper who might not actually end up competing either? If so, that would take us to 108. For swimming relays I've included two spots on the women's side in addition to McSharry and Walshe. I haven't included a men's relay team at this point because - as I understand it - we haven't fully fulfilled the criteria to the extent that we can be certain we'll be sending a team. Edited May 22 by Cosmo Kramer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 889 Posted May 22 #167 Share Posted May 22 Relay team for womens is 5 travelling, but you must include all those qualified at that event. So its Adeleke, Mawsley + 3 There's no requirement to include qualified individual athletes for the mixed so that could be another 2 men + 2 women. So I make our athletics team 9 individuals and 7 relay athletes at the moment. Swimming might not be known for a while. Ferguson (100m back) and Ryan (100m free) may get in with ranks + OCT and we'd get that relay team in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattiekav119 13 Posted May 22 #168 Share Posted May 22 Danielle Hill has just qualified in the 100m backstroke - 59.11 per Swim Ireland twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 889 Posted May 22 #169 Share Posted May 22 http://live-timings.swimireland.ie/ Timing there. Conor Ferguson didn't get the 100m back time himself. Was quicker in heats but he has a final tomorrow still to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattiekav119 13 Posted May 22 #170 Share Posted May 22 And very impressively for Danielle over a second shaved off her national record. A massive drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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