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Jason Smyth is pretty well known in Ireland. He has won gold in each of the last 3 Paralympics. He even qualified for the (able bodied) European championships in 2010 making the semi finals Before Mona McSharry reached the Olympic final this year, Paralympian Ellen Keane may have been the most famous swimmer in the country. She’s involved in advertising campaigns for several brands. She won bronze in Rio (and the 2019 world championships). The team will hope to win 10-15 medals total with athletics and cycling being our strongest sports usually

Indeed and lots of top countries (and some middling ones) are missing it too

I think under 23 is definitely a better barometer for ‘strength’ sports. It’s tough too using the Olympics as some countries will have much deeper strength in depth seeing their best under 23s nowhere near the Games. They may still be stronger than some who qualified with other countries. Looking forward to seeing your list though as it’s an interesting area

I can’t give you the info you need but I can tell you that Irish 800m runner Mark English got the standard while running to get the standard for Tokyo (last day possible!). There won’t be too many people who qualify for Olympics and world championships with the one race!

Can’t speak for @Oldira@OlympicIRL as they’re the main 2 other users but I don’t really see a use for a separate Irish forum I come here for general news from around the world particularly in sports that aren’t covered well in Irish media (or English language media really)

Boxing is down almost solely because people weren’t claiming their boxers were robbed this time

Listed by sport as they appear on the website: 3x3 shot to win gold and amazing scenes Artistic gymnastics Sunisa Lee winning under all that pressure. 46 year old Chusovitina getting a huge ovation from other gymnasts as she finished vault men’s team reaction to winning gold Athletics Warholm 4x100 men’s Splitting gold Boxing Kellie Harrington wins an incredible final. Cycling Van Vleuten thinking she won the road race and her incredible redemption time trial. Ganna dragging the Italian pursuit team around for an amazing win Equestrian domination in show jumping but still needing the last rider meltdown from in team Football beating in their opening game. winning gold Golf - waking up to see a 7 man play off for bronze Hockey - both teams performing so well Modern Pentathlon and especially suffering with horses Rowing first ever rowing gold. First ever team bronze. The women 8 with the upset and the men’s four not getting a medal as they nearly veered off course. The crazy finish to the women’s lightweight double Rugby with two medals but the women’s being particularly memorable Shooting with medals!! Sport climbing - just being so impressed with the speed events. Happy that’ll have it’s won medals in Paris Swimming Titmuss beating Ledecky. gold from lane 8 Tennis Djokovic losing his mind as he was beaten Triathlon gold for Duffy Wrestling the great Lopez winning super heavy again. The only wrestler I know!

They’re not ‘ruining the games’. Honestly most people outside these obsessed forums don’t even watch a quarter of sports at the games There’s multiple threads here from people who’d happily get rid of plenty of core sports too. I wouldn’t have breakdancing in but it won’t effect my enjoyment of the Games a tiny little bit

To be fair the numbers were getting way too big. Less and less cities were able to host the games

I’ve enjoyed these round ups. Thanks for the efforts @Quasit!

For the first time ever has won gold in 2 different sports at the same Olympics Also the first time we’ve had both men and women win a gold medal at the same time Only our 11th time winning gold

Kellie is such a hero

Natalya Coyle will carry the flag for

Congrats to Sweden. Fully deserved. 2 fences down over 18 rounds of jumping is incredible from the team

“Disgusting” performance by Vetter in the javelin

There’s been one British doomsayer who’s gone very quiet the last couple of days despite talking non stop all week about how this would be a disaster for GB

Canada win one of 3 games in the group stages and don't score from open play in the knock outs to win gold. Incredible Congrats to all Canadians here

I hope Sweden don't do an Ireland and fail tomorrow after such an amazing performance so far. They deserve gold

Sorry but I couldn't resist bringing this back up. in the groups; won all 5 with a GD of +16 (including 3-1 win over the superior Germans) Won QF 3-0 Won SF 5-1 Won Final 3-1 The superior German team lost 3-0 to Argentina in the quarter final stage

Well the penalty is time. Either way it's going to be even shorter next time round

She won't be caught.

Saint Boy caused two riders, including 2 pre-event medal contenders to be eliminated Of those who weren't eliminated Constantin had 2 of the bottom 4 scorers. Coyle for Ireland is an exceptional rider (that's her background) and she didn't stand a chance I'm sure plenty did make mistakes but there's no doubt that those 2 horses were particularly poor today. I think Schleu was robbed of a gold. Even a passable horse would have given her enough to win. I haven't used words like disgrace etc as it's part of the game but I think it's fair to point out particularly troublesome horses too

Not a great day for Irish people with horses

Absolutely heart breaking for Schlue. A certain gold medal gone

Well at least I know who to blame @hckošice