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Team Ireland Daily Diary at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games


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1 hour ago, feargale said:

Brilliant by Daniel.

P.S. Wife asked me what's in the cardboard box. Fireworks?

There's actually nothing in it - it's just a box for the medal. Although apparently the medals themselves have fragments of the Eiffel Tower in them, which is interesting.

 

We won't be winning any more golds tomorrow but it's another huge day for us in an already incredible week. Harrington with the chance to make it three medals in three days as well as McSharry, Corrigan/Timoney, Keogh/Murtagh,O'Donovan/McCarthy, Dickson/Waddilove, Jude Gallagher and Aoife O'Rourke among others as well. And in the middle of all that I need to get some work done at some point.

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Early days, and it maybe won't last, but notable that we're currently ahead of all three of the countries we most often compare ourselves to/aspire towards - NZ, Denmark and Croatia - in the medal table.

 

In terms of NOCs of a similar population to Ireland's, Hong Kong are the only ones outperforming us at the moment, mainly thanks to some fencing gold medals and of course Siobhan Haughey.

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1 minute ago, Cosmo Kramer said:

Early days, and it maybe won't last, but notable that we're currently ahead of all three of the countries we most often compare ourselves to/aspire towards - NZ, Denmark and Croatia - in the medal table.

 

In terms of NOCs of a similar population to Ireland's, Hong Kong are the only ones outperforming us at the moment, mainly thanks to some fencing gold medals and of course Siobhan Haughey.

Great start for us. Expect New Zealand to surge clear soon though when their main events come and Denmark will get a good spread of medals and likely golds as well. Though if we hit most of our gold medal chances too then we could sneak our way right up the table this time. Here’s hoping :) 

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Corrigan/Timoney safely through to the Pair Final, fifth fastest overall. They won't start as medal favourites but you couldn't completely rule them out of sneaking a medal at this point. No idea what's gone wrong for Murtagh and Keogh in the women's, there must be an issue we don't know about, poor in the heats and miles off it here.

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Yeah, the womens pair are my only real disappointment so far. I don’t care for post mortems when we’ve no idea what happened. Womens squad overall will be disappointed 

 

Two medals to come in rowing for me but the pair and the LW women could do anything. 
 

Confident in Fintan and Paul again!

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Can't see the lightweights being beaten from here, kind of knew once O'Donovan started coming out with all the David and Goliath stuff after the heats, they clearly knew they had made up the ground from the race in Lucerne. The Swiss had no answer today and the Italians had their hands full with the Greeks in the other semi, so it's looking really good for Friday.

 

Women's lightweight were closer to the action than I expected them to be, would be a real bonus if they could get in the top three.

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Didn't see first round of Gallagher's fight against Paalam but he gave him plenty of it in 2nd round and thought clearly won third round but 3 judges gave both against him so even losing first round across the board, seemed a bit hard done by to go down 5-0. Seen fighters get points deducted with much less warnings than Paalam in the last too.

 

Great morning for the rowers, would obviously have expected lightweight double to go through, would have given maybe 60-70% to mens pair but didn't expect women's LW2X to go through so hopefully they can have a right cut at the Final.

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Definitely think Gallagher was harshly judged there. I've watched a bit of the boxing this week outside of the Irish fights and a successful approach seems to be to celebrate every punch thrown loudly and with arms raised, even when you miss, celebrate at the end of every round like you've just won the gold and if you get in any bother just grab your opponent and run the clock down because you won't be penalised for it anyway.

 

With Harrington finishing up after the Olympics and us now casting our net wider in terms of medals and finals, maybe it wouldn't be as big a disaster as it once would have been if it dropped off the schedule for a few years.

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They need to get rid of this ludicrous scoring system, it just doesn't work for 3 round fights. The scoring system in London where they took the average of the judges points scores for each round, discarding the outliers at either extreme, seemed by far the fairest and most accurate for me. I'd agree that the showboating seems to sway the judges from the fights I've seen, if I was a judge it would incline me to go against them, especially if they weren't clearly winning

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