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Well, it's round about on par with Tokyo. Not very impressive for the standards of Badminton or Kentucky.
 
Refusal for Italy now at the slide.

The Irish Team has been named. They won silver last time out but that was a bit of an outlier in terms of global results. They're usually in the 5-10 range
 
https://www.horsesportireland.ie/124955-2/
 

 
Susie Berry with Monbeg By Design (ISH) [was Eskerhills Elixir] – 2012 gelding by Pacino (BWP) out of Eskerhills Lexis [ISH] by Puissance (ISH)[TIH]. Breeder: Fiona Molloy (Offaly). Owner: Helen Caton. Groom: Crisy Salmon
 
Padraig McCarthy with Fallulah (WESTF) – 2009 brown mare by Fidertanz 2 out of Devona by Di Versace. Bred by: Michael Norris, Owner: Amanda and Nicholas Boyle, Diane Brunsden, Peter Cattel and Padraig McCarthy. Groom: Jess Elliott
 
Joseph Murphy with Calmaro (BRAND) 2011 grey gelding by Carpalano out of Unknown. Owner: Claire Mayne, Charlie Mayne, Richard Ames and Annette O’Callaghan. Groom: Ryan Hopper
 
Austin O’Connor with Colorado Blue (SHBGB) – 2009 grey gelding by Jaguar Mail out of Rock Me Baby by Rock Kind. Bred by Mellon Stud, Owner Austin O’Connor and The Salty Syndicate Groom: Francesca Denning
 
Sam Watson with SAP Talisman (ISH) – 2011 bay gelding by Puissance (ISH) out of Ali Row (TB) by All Royal (TB). Breeder: Rosemary Ponsonby. Owner: Hannah Watson and Julia Watson. Groom: Hannah Watson
 
Non-travelling Reserves:
Felicity Ward with Regal Bounty (ISH) – 2011 black gelding by Orestus VDL (KWPN) out of Edge of Reason (ISH) by Senang Hati (TB). Breeder: Miriam De Feu. Owner: James O’Callaghan
 
Michael Ryan with Barnahown Corn Hill (ISH) – 2011 brown gelding by Chinook Eclipse (TB) (USA) and out of Mats Lady (UNK). Bred by Michael Lynch Co Cork. Owners: Carol and Tom Henry

Hi everybody,
 
First time poster, long time lurker on this forum.  I attach a hour-by-hour all-sports schedule for 2024 that I have prepared (rounded to the nearest quarter-hour).  Lots of changes and clarifications to come, of course, many of which have been subjects in this topic.  Hope you find this useful.  Start planning your viewing now!
 
Corrections and updates welcome!
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2024_olympics_schedule.pdf

On the rowing... Philip Doyle posted on his instagram that he's in a pre-Worlds training camp in Italy so it'll be interesting to see what kind of team we send there. The women's 6 (4+2) are definitely in Italy too 

2 years out, here's some sport by sports thoughts
 
Rowing - Obviously in good shape. The lightweight double are amazing. Seems like Fintan has got stronger. The women's lightweight have changed and they seem to have improved. Still young but might be too early to call them medal contenders. The womens four and the womens pair will need to be sorted in terms of boat make up but I'd expect both to qualify easily. Women's double is a bit more up in the air as Sanita is getting on and doesn't seem to stay fit. Would be amazing to get that 8 in! We've a very good young nucleus on the men's side but Paris might be a bit away. The double of Byrne and Doyle has been split up with Doyle going solo for now. Corrigan added to Byrne but none of them selected for the Europeans so obviously work to do there
 
Boxing - The big decision is whether Kellie Harrington or Amy broadhurst gets the 60kg spot. I'd expect qualifiers at most womens weights and if Lisa O'Rourke continues to develop, she'll be a medal favourite. Others like Michaela Walshe will need a bit of luck with the draw etc. AIdan got that luck in Tokyo but looked great at recent commonwealths. The men's team is in the early stages of reinventing itself but young talents like Jude gallagher, Dylan Eagleson, Gabriel Dossen, Jack Marley and Dean Clancy are all exciting
 
Athletics - Obviously Adeleke is our most exciting talent in years. Remains to be seen if she can medal on the world stage but great to have her competitive at such a young age. She'll still only be 21 in Paris! We'll have roughly the same qualifiers as always and very few chances of reaching a final, never mind a medal. They've been smart to target relays so hopefully that continues
 
Equestrian - The show jumping are definitely world class. But we all know how tricky that sport can be to get right on the day/days. 3 day eventing always out performs the showjumpers but only really Cathal Daniels can be considered world class with Rioghan Rua. We might have one in dressage too
 
Swimming. We actually have 3 world class swimmers now in McSharry, Walshe and Wiffen. Likely no medals but there's definitely finals potential there. Again, we'll see how they attack relay qualification for Paris
 
Sailing - Eve McMahon and Finn Lynch have both have outstanding results in the single seater boats over last 18 months with McMahon being by far the best young sailor in the world. Paris might be too soon for her. Waddilove and Dickson may be medal contendors
 
Cycling - the road race may be a lottery but we have quality riders and should qualify 4. Alice Sharpe might even qualify on the road for the women. The womens team pursuit should qualify giving us a chance in the crazy madison too. Hopefully we get the solo omnium spot too for a team of 5. Looks like JB Murphy is the only track man at the moment
 
Golf - We'll qualify 4 and have chances with Maguire and whoever the men are
 
Taekwondo - Jack should qualify but he rarely makes medal matches at the very top
 
Gymnastics - Fingers crossed for Rhys and we'll likely have a woman in too
 
Canoeing - I expect us to qualify in the C1, could be any of Jegou, Hendrick or Cochrane. 
 
Badminton - Nhat Nguyen will qualify
 
Shooting - Maybe Aoife Gormally will continue to improve. Ian O'Sullivan looks to have lost all form
 
Triathlon - Carolyn Hayes hasn't competed since Tokyo. Hopefully she's back at it soon. The men look way off the standard required
 
Modern Pentathlon - Coyle isn't officially retired but hasn't competed since Tokyo. Brisell might qualify but wouldn't be guaranteed
 
Judo - Ben Fletcher is another who hasn't competed. Without him we likely won't have a qualifier
 
In the team sports, the hockey women are in a bit of a post Tokyo lull. Both they and the men need to improve. The rugby 7s teams both look to have stepped up and we might qualify in both this time. The women look much stronger than previous years. The men's football team aren't ruled out yet either....
 

Small bit of Irish rowing history happened today. First ever womens 8 to compete internationally 
 
Made up of our 4-, 2-, 2x and a cox 
 
 

going to the Olympics at first time of asking
 
Unreal

going to the Olympics at first time of asking
 
Unreal

going to the Olympics at first time of asking
 
Unreal

Small bit of Irish rowing history happened today. First ever womens 8 to compete internationally 
 
Made up of our 4-, 2-, 2x and a cox 
 
 

To be fair I don't think Denmark could ever really be considered a medal contender in Show jumping

9 of the qualifiers are known now (order to be decided
 
   
 
Last spot likely for but if they have 2 fences down then it's  
 

On broadcasting, it seems most of the EBU members are all showing it (live and FTA). It's good to see tbh

To be fair I don't think Denmark could ever really be considered a medal contender in Show jumping

national broadcaster RTE has 3 hours live coverage today on RTE 2 (FTA channel that shows all sport). Coverage of the rowing heats currently going on are available on a secondary News channel and via stream on their player/website too.  
 
Tomorrow they're live for 5 hours. Next Monday (random day) they're showing 7 hours live.
 
For context they didn't cover the World Athletics championship (or world swimming, world rowing in previous years, world gymnastics etc)

TV schedules aren't about relevance. They're about the cost of acquiring the rights versus the amount of viewers they'll get. And while us sports nuts mightn't like it, repeats of sitcoms or reality shows get more viewers per dollar/pound/euro than most sports

Similar to some boxing bouts I’ve seen so 

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. 

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. 

JUMPING https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Paris2024- Proposed Qualification System JUMPING- vF-Sept2021_OK.pdf

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

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

Jason Smyth does it again  
 
6 Time Paralympic Champion  

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

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