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Sorry, I meant to say Irish born! I’m not suggesting Ellis isn’t Irish, I meant more that Megan and Emma were developed in Ireland so it’s a great sign for our coaches and systems etc!

Emma Slevin is the first Irish gymnast to ever make an all around final. She made the European final earlier this year. An historic year for gymnastics with Meg Ryan being our first ever female olympian too.

Just on this, both will be part of the existing Sports Ireland campus which sees many sports share facilities. Works pretty well to be fair. Velodrome has been talked about for 25 years or more so we’ll see if it happens Brilliant to see our women’s team pursuit win bronze. Obviously the huge nations are weaker than normal but it’s still a great achievement. Ireland’s first ever team medal at this level Another medal today: young JB Murphy in the scratch race. That’s a brilliant return for Team Ireland

This is great

So so happy for Tony Martin.

Effectively a European B championship with all the Olympic horses missing. Shows the strength in depth for Sweden

That’s not true in the It’s weird. won gold in Rio and repeated here in Tokyo in B tandem and everywhere I’ve them listed in Ireland as Katie-George Dunleavy and Eve McCrystal. Always listed as a pair. To the point where you’d have to look up who had the disability or impairment as the names were just always listed together Until this year on the official site and on the graphics and it’s just Katie-George Dunleavy competing. Ireland is still calling them by the duo names though

In the app you can click into the dates though and jump to whatever one you want. Not that bad tbh

I just wanted to share one of my favourite interviews ever. Silver medal winner Nicole Turner’s joy is infectious

Two for two! Smyth and Keane both winning gold. Amazing

So happy for Ellen Keane. What a star. Her first global gold medal

A mix of both is fine and most sports have a system that suits them. I prefer direct qualification for most sports but rankings definitely suit some The tokyo delay added a few complications but it’ll be back to ‘normal’ for Paris you’d imagine

I think he has a much better shot but his hurdling does need to improve. Hit at least 3 in his semi final

And before tiktok it was snapchat, before that Instagram, before that twitter, before that Facebook, before that chat rooms and before all of them video games and before that even TV was being talked about as a reason for ‘the youth’ being less interested in sport People have more choices than ever before but sport and the Olympics is still huge

I honestly can’t see how anybody could have any sympathy for weightlifting They've had years to try and clean up their sport

Not to mention many of the top athletes will clearly prioritise the world championships

Good start for with Lara Gillespie fastest qualifier in the u23 pursuit

Countries who won medals at the 2018 championships missing this time There may be others I’ve missed

Similar to some boxing bouts I’ve seen so

It’s a completely new team for Ireland too in showjumping Sending a 3 combo team to the dressage champs too

It’s only the second medal won by Ireland at world junior level btw Edit: and the first rows for GB now…

Yes. They pulled out in June (For some reason I can’t post links on mobile) Actually here it is

The finals will be streamed live on the world rowing YouTube channel for anybody interested

This is the only sport where they drug test to make sure there is some IN your system