OlympicIRL

Team Ireland is ready to kick-off action at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and we would like to welcome all members of the Team Ireland Club to gather here to discuss, react and hopefully celebrate together as all the live action unfolds. This thread will serve as the main thread for the Team Ireland Club throughout the Paris 2024 Olympics. Let the Games begin.... come on Ireland!!

Since our first day of Irish in action gets underway tomorrow, I’m going to open our Paris 2024 Daily Diary thread in the Ireland Club later today. That thread will serve as our main place to discuss all the daily Olympic news, results, reaction to events as they happen.

It’s nice to see we have progressed as an Olympic nation that we are being reckoned to do so well across so many prediction resources. However I don’t think there’s any chance we are hitting 10 unless we nail everything. I’m willing to be wrong though! Maybe this is the Games that makes up for all the bad luck of previous ones

Yeah not a fan either of the uniform.

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Too good to be true . Like I said, wasn’t sure if they were reliable but I think you’ve just confirmed they are irrelevant

Not sure if these are reliable but I found these on LeMonde with the breakdown of heats, not only in swimming: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sport/jo-2024/calendar/swimming/july-27-2024/

Wow just saw Ireland won gold in the hammer with Thomas Williams With 20 year old Nicole Tuthill already qualified to Paris maybe we are going to resurrect our tradition of great hammer throwers of the past. New generation of Irish whales

I’ll be here on Sunday evening

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Sport Ireland’s high performance strategy 2021-2032) outlines a target of 5-7 medals for this Olympics.

Either way, it’s coming home in 2028

The Irish athletes have all been given a crest of their county emblem which will be embroidered onto the sleeve of their opening ceremony uniforms. Nice touch https://x.com/sineadkissane/status/1814241930298999031https://x.com/sineadkissane/status/1814241930298999031

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For me personally I will find LA a bit more manageable. For example, let’s say action starts around 08:00 and finish at 22:00. For me that would be 16:00-06:00. So I’d just sleep in really late until 14:30 or so and stay up a few hours late. I’m often awake until 02:00 am or even 03:00am at weekends anyway so an extra couple of hours seems ok especially if I sleep in until afternoon. But no matter what the time zone I’d try to make it work by booking vacation during Olympics and gradually changing my sleep pattern.

Brisbane 32 is probably going to be even worse but we can and will do it

Enjoy it now because we back to late night viewings for 2028 and 2032 I changed my sleep schedule for Tokyo and it honestly worked well as I started changing gradually in the week before the Games. But I’m excited to be back to “normal” for this Olympics.

Kissing the dog is a new one

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Pretty similar to last time then! I’ll be at the entire rugby sevens tournament apart from the first day (travel to Paris on Wednesday morning from Germany and will see men’s football in the evening).

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I’ve been so busy preparing for going to the Olympics that I’m out of the loop about where it’s being broadcast in Ireland this time (outside of RTÉ and BBC ). Is it on Eurosport here this time as well or is it again on Discovery Plus? Just want to know the best way for us in Ireland to catch as much of the action as possible.