Cosmo Kramer

Looked like they had taken a different line to the other boats heading to the second mark, but I couldn't tell if they had made up places or were still struggling at the back. Probably just as well it was abandoned on balance.

The BBC swimming commentary for Wiffen's race was excellent to be fair. They understood the strengths and weaknesses of the top competitors really well, particularly impressive considering they need that level of knowledge for 30+ events, and that massively aided their description of the race compared to Discovery, or the RTE commentary which I have seen since.

Personally am avoiding RTE for the ad breaks alone, if there's any interesting post race stuff on RTE it will be on twitter anyway. Watching almost all of it on the no ads section of Discovery+ plus a bit of BBC coverage thrown in, though that grates at times as well.

Four days, four medals, fantastic!

I have four streams on the go this morning - all with Irish interest (rowing, swimming, golf and showjumping), definitely getting value out of my Discovery+ subscription anyway!

I was fairly certain this would happen unfortunately. Firstly when she was pipped by Kaczmarek in Rome after doing the mixed and then even more so when Kaczmarek and Pryce ran those crazy fast 400m times just before the games. Obviously no hope of a medal in the mixed without her, and no late career glory for Tom Barr as a result. The big concern I have though is that she doesn't look like one of the best three in the individual 400 at the moment, so we end up with the worst of both worlds, no medal in the mixed and a fourth or fifth place finish for her in the individual event as well.

Standing by this even more now after the O'Rourke fight. Honestly I'd be fine to let the boxing go for a few years now, much as it has bailed us out down the years it's now at the point where, because of the judging and refereeing, it's more trouble than it's worth. I'd rather see those competitors using their physical strengths in a boat or a canoe being ranked on their ability rather than at the whim of - at best - sub-standard boxing judges from around the world.

After the experience of sitting through Annalise's two medals races I'd gladly take a medal of any colour from the sailors tomorrow. But they've overachieved even to get to this position, regardless of what happens from here.

Comfortable enough from Harrington, still a classy operator, and now winning medals in two Olympics, which even Taylor didn't manage (though Paddy Barnes of course did!). Three medals in three days for Ireland, and more to come without doubt. Hard to see how this will be anything other than our most successful ever Olympics from here. I posted it half jokingly on Monday, but we genuinely could win a medal a day this week, we have multiple chances daily for the next four days up to Sunday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Amazing, been watching Daniel coming through for years and it's all come together tonight, and arguably not even in his strongest event. This is what it's all about.🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Definitely not diminished - as I said, it's looking like a massive overachievement at this point. As ever there are some concerns about some of the scoring in Paris but for the most part our defeats have been deserved, we've just been outboxed. Would hope we can get two more into QFs - hopefully O'Rourke + one more, and then hopefully push through for two medals from there.

Lehane well out of her depth there. That's four boxers knocked out in their first bouts now. Wouldn't have a huge amount of hope for Moorhouse against a French opponent either. We did extremely well to qualify 10, but it's looking like an overachievement to get that many there at this point.

Agree, but at this point I'll be surprised if Doyle and Lynch aren't one of the three medal winning crews. Nothing guaranteed but they have looked so comfortable in their two races so far.

This could just be the start of an incredible week. Wiffen Tuesday Harrington Wednesday Double Sculls on Thursday Lightweight Doubles on Friday McClenaghan on Saturday And Wiffen again on Sunday And many others throughout the week as well (including McSharry in the 200). If it goes well this has the potential to be one of the all time great weeks in Irish sport.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Watched the C-1 final "as live", not knowing the outcome. It really was a great effort, he just barely clipped the last gate with his shoulder, you could see it on the replay, it was so slight but it did happen. It was the difference between seventh and silver. So close. Dickson/Waddilove appear to have been DQ'd from one of their races after a Spanish protest. Still second but that uses up their discard score. Not sure if they can counter-protest or if that's final.

It's Monday morning of arguably the biggest week in Irish Olympic history. A genuine possibility that we'll be watching event finals or boxing QFs with genuine medal potential every single day this week. Starting with Mona McSharry this evening. By Sunday night we'll be about 90% of the way to knowing our outcome in terms of total medals, even with a full week still to go in the games.

Great bit of front foot boxing from Marley. The boxing team needed that. I watched his next opponent in the fight after and he'll have it tough to win a medal, but you never know. McSharry outstanding again tonight. Before the Olympics started I made a list of what I thought were our 30 or chances of a medal from near certs to ones that would have a chance if everything went their way. I didn't have Mona on it and she could end up winning our first medal.

A bit early yet to be mentioning Rio in terms of the boxers, but it hasn't been a good start. Grainne Walsh maybe our third or fourth best shot for a medal, and she's gone in the round of 32. At least we're not as reliant on one sport as we used to be. Could really do with a getting a win on the board from Jack Marley tonight all the same. The main positives today have been Dickson/Waddilove, Corrigan/Timoney and Mona McSharry. Murtagh/Keogh probably in the negative column with Walsh x 2, although they qualified directly from their heat, they don't have the look of genuine medal contenders.

Great recovery from a dreadful start for the men's pair to get through in third. They were fourth with 20 meters to row, maybe 10 metres, what a finish.