OlympicIRL

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.

Ok I think the penny finally dropped for me. Poland could have technically occupied another quota if they chose another paddler. Forgot about the qualifying the boat rather than the athlete rule in canoeing

I mean Poland is the same, their paddler is entering both K1 and C1, they didn't refuse the quota, least not according to our Polish friend here.

Same as Poland then.

Irish athletes have benefited from reallocations as well (though we have also rejected quotas in the past too) and while it is nice to receive a bonus of another athlete qualified, I really hope some time soon the IOC introduce some sort of rule that binds NOCs to accept all athletes who qualified by right unless the athletes were in breach of rules, etc. Wishful thinking but would love to see that happen in the true spirit of the Olympic principles.

I wish them luck and hopefully with a positive outcome it would help put an end to these awful cases of athletes being stopped from going to the Olympics when they have met the official qualifying criteria.

Looks like China got a reallocated quota in women's K1 (Li Shiting), seems to be they aren't counting Jessica Fox's quota in that event since she is qualified in both C1 and K1. @hckošice is that right?

@Benolympique Ireland now have 133 athletes qualified: +1 in Canoe Slalom (4 in total).

4 golds 1 silver and 4 bronze is a bit optimistic for Ireland I think, everything would have to work out for us. But I'm willing to accept this scenario now, let me sign the deal

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Rhys McClenaghan will be in Subdivision 3 during qualification so means he will have a very late start... 21:40 local time (20:40 Irish time). Ever the professional, he is changing his training times now in advance to replicate those "conditions"

Congrats Spain, best team all tournament On a very important note though, football needs to find a new anthem to replace Freed From Desire already

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I was also wondering should we create some sort of report card for all Irish athletes so that when the Olympics are over we can properly examine Ireland's performance using some sort of solid criteria? Have criteria as to what would exceed expectation of a particular athlete, meet expectation, under-perform, etc. It's often hard to examine the cold-hard facts after the Olympics as as one powerful positive or negative result can kind of influence our overall perception of whether we had a good Games or not. Just a thought?

Yes the fewer threads the better really. I think we could keep the schedule thread separate and update it as draws become known etc. and have a separate one called something like "Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Daily Diary" which would serve as our main thread to discuss the daily events and news as they happen live.

Yes I think we can start thinking about what threads we need. I don't think we'd need one for every sport though but open to suggestions on what threads we would like @dodge @mpjmcevoy @Oldira @Ogreman @duineeile @mattiekav119

Not sure if you saw it but I opened a thread with the Irish-specific schedule here:

Now that the draw has been revealed, how soon might we expect them to reveal which matches are allocated to each session?