Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker

[OlympicIRL 5,534]

  On 7/14/2024 at 2:08 PM, Cosmo Kramer said:

Could potentially just use the schedule thread you have set up to begin with and see how that goes. There may not be sufficient people posting to warrant multiple threads. 

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Yes the fewer threads the better really. I think we could keep the schedule thread separate and update it as draws become known etc. and have a separate one called something like "Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Daily Diary" which would serve as our main thread to discuss the daily events and news as they happen live.

[Cosmo Kramer 24]

Yes that would work fine I think.

Edited July 14, 2024 by Cosmo Kramer

[OlympicIRL 5,534]

I was also wondering should we create some sort of report card for all Irish athletes so that when the Olympics are over we can properly examine Ireland's performance using some sort of solid criteria? Have criteria as to what would exceed expectation of a particular athlete, meet expectation, under-perform, etc. It's often hard to examine the cold-hard facts after the Olympics as as one powerful positive or negative result can kind of influence our overall perception of whether we had a good Games or not. Just a thought?

Edited July 14, 2024 by OlympicIRL

[dodge 1,027]

I think the general sports thread in the main forums will be enough for us there so a daily Irish one here should do. Only a handful of us so easily manageable 

[duineeile 5]

Yeah I'd say a daily thread is fine. Not long to go now, 10 days until the men's rugby sevens starts! 

[dodge 1,027]

There was never any doubt but the golfers have been announced. Just the road cyclists now. May actually have an effect on the numbers if Lara Gillespie is named for the road as well as the track

[Cosmo Kramer 24]

Looks like only Shane and Leona managed to make it to the announcement photoshoot for whatever reason.

[dodge 1,027]

  On 7/15/2024 at 7:28 PM, Cosmo Kramer said:

Looks like only Shane and Leona managed to make it to the announcement photoshoot for whatever reason.

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Was last week. They were in the country and the others weren’t 

[dodge 1,027]

We’re up to 133

 

Michaela Corcoran has been added to the canoe squad. We have one in each event and they’re all doing the cross too 

 

EDIT: Poland refused their c1 quota 

Edited July 16, 2024 by dodge

[Ogreman 360]

  On 7/16/2024 at 5:34 PM, dodge said:

We’re up to 133

 

Michaela Corcoran has been added to the canoe squad. We have one in each event and they’re all doing the cross too 

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There is nothing quite like the joy of a completely unexpected last minute quota.

You spend so much time analysing whether a given athlete will or won't make it and then just out of nowhere a quota you didn't even know was on the cards. Qualifying a full squad in the canoe slalom has to be strangest story of this qualification cycle for us. Especially in the context of most of our comparable sports size wise like mondern pentathlon, triathlon, judo have struggled this olympic cycle.

 

What do we think the delay is with the road cycling announcement, we're basically the only ones left in the field yet to announce our team. Megan Armitage did just have covid so maybe that is what it is although I had wondered given Lara Gillespie and Alice Sharpe were selected for the madison and that we rejected a tt spot that they could be indications that Mia Griffin would get the nod for the road race but the race is just about hilly enough to justify picking Armitage. Obviously Lara Gillespie is our best rider but she can't do everything.

 

Also who the we think the second men's rider is. Eddie wasn't exactly in great form at tour of austria I guess he should be in better form in a few weeks with the vuelta on the horizon. Sammy well at least he got himself a top 5 and his leadout has been hopeless even if he himself hasn't had the legs either. Darren Rafferty hasn't raced since nationals. Is there a case for Ryan Mullen if all we are realistically asking our second rider to do is help control the early breakaway for 200km. The only other thing any of them in their current form could realistically do to assist Ben Healy is get in the early break but how much value is there in that given that the point of getting in the break when you have a contender is so you don't have to chase but we only have two riders so if one of them is in the break there is no one there to chase with anyway.

Anyway hopefully Ben gets his stage win this week, he deserves one but either way he absolutely has the legs to contend at the Olympics.