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rugby 7s joins Taekwondo as new sports for Ireland in Tokyo

Maybe slightly off topic here but all 3 women could win medals and Kurt Walker has a strong chance too. Now of course we still a bit of luck with the draw but it’s still 4 medal chances

It may well do yeah. I think Kellie Harrington should medal but everyone else will be depending on a kind draw With average luck (ie no freak winds or injuries etc) I’d expect 2 rowing medals and hope for more

Speaking of Ireland, they've official named the squad Women's Single sculls (W1x) Sanita Puspure Women's pair (W2-) Monika Dukarska, Aileen Crowley Men's double sculls (M2x) Ronan Byrne, Philip Doyle Men's lightweight double sculls (LM2x) Paul O'Donovan, Fintan McCarthy Women's four (W4-) Emily Hegarty, Fiona Murtagh, Eimear Lambe, Aifric Keogh Women's lightweight double sculls (LW2x) Aoife Casey, Margaret Cremen thinks they have 4 realistic medal shots. One should win gold...

They base it all on historical things like the world championships and European championships. The world cups and qualifiers don’t even register with them. I got 4/1 on the O’Donovan brothers to medal in 2016 when I could only see 4 possible medalists (who finished 1-4 btw) The Russian should be favourite ahead of Sanita

More importantly their agents disagree

It may have just been a slip of the tongue/mind. Euro dressage mention the three when talking about Dwyer's pregnancy recently https://www.eurodressage.com/2021/06/04/kate-dwyer-withdraws-irish-olympic-team-contention

One of the few sports were Ireland genuinely had a choice to make was track cycling but the teams have been selected. Men's Madison Mark Downey Felix English Fintan Ryan (reserve) Men's Omnium TBC Women's Madison Emily Kay Shannon McCurley Lydia Gurley (reserve) Women's Omnium Emily Kay

The World Cup might be finished though. Last held in 2018 The Dunhill cup was the 3 on 3 format you’re talking about. Last run in 2000. As a kid I remember vividly Ireland winning!

I love that has 2 qualifiers on the women's side

No problem with the limits on countries and think the ranking is fine for bringing in other non-traditional countries Personally, I'd try for 64 person fields with a straight knock out match play tournament (seeded)

It’s also a national quota, not an individual one so Ireland may send former world junior champion Ian O’Sullivan instead

Unless it's the only spot we could get. Shooting has some very, very weird reallocations...

For triathlon, the athletes needed to meet one of these to qualify - Being among the top 140 in the ITU Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking for qualification places of ITU Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification Ranking, ITU Mixed Relay Qualification Event, ITU Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking and Host Country; - Being among the top 180 in the ITU World Ranking for the qualification places of ITU World Ranking and Tripartite Commission Invitation.

The Brazilian is world champion and she should medal but so much depends on the draw. Dubois and Hamadouche are dangerous non seeds

in the 60kg Harrington of Ireland will be Number 1 seed, Yeonji of Korea number 2 and Ferrara of Brazil number 3

There it is

In case you missed it @OlympicIRL Russell White got the final spot. He’s off to Tokyo

I’ll wait until @MHSN confirms

As long as gets in as you promised, its' all good

Yes. I should have said the shoes is the best case scenario Some of the recent times have been absurd

The weightlifting qualifying criteria are the most complicated thing I’ve ever read BTW so congratulation to anybody who has figured them out!

I looked him up before btw. 28th at the 2019 world championships he got himself in a couple of the Irish newspapers as they looked for angles during the pandemic

It would be some coup if gets a magical quota here @OlympicIRL @Oldira