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Azerbaijan.... wonderful!

Historic European Medal Success for Magee Siblings Irish badminton are celebrating a first medal at the European Championships after brother and sister mixed doubles pairing Sam and Chloe Magee captured bronze in Kolding, Denmark at the weekend. The European Games bronze medalists replicated that performance, coming through a tough path to reach the semi-finals. The unseeded pair defeated the 5th seeds from the Netherlands in round 1 before conquering the 4th seeded Polish duo in the quarter-finals. Sam and Chloe eventually bowed out against the number 1 seeds from Denmark Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen, losing 21-14, 21-10. A delighted Chloe had this to say of their medal success: “I just can’t believe it......we wanted to get that medal and we knew we had a good draw if we played well enough. But we had the number five seeds in the first round so could easily have lost there". "The aim, the goal was a medal. I think our whole career, that was our aim, winning a medal and we’ve done that today".

Maybe even three if their younger brother Joshua develops his game in men's doubles. Unlikely scenario though It's certainly a family affair as their coach is older brother Daniel Magee and another young prospect in the women's game Rachel Darragh is their cousin. All from a small town (and I mean small ) nearby me, it's a great success story.

Thanks They come from a small town near where I live so it's really great to see them to doing so well. I hope they can qualify for Tokyo!

Congratulations Great Britain on another victory, very well deserved!! Huge personal congrats goes to uk12points for delivering a wonderful show, really top class hosting! And thanks for all the time and effort you dedicated to give us this great day of entertainment I was only dipping in and out in the last voting segments and didn't want to miss thanking anyone who voted for Ireland. I didn't get time to check all individually but I want to thank dearly and for adding to our total . If I missed anyone I am truly sorry. Disappointing day for Ireland this time. Two Door Cinema Club didn't strike a chord with the international juries this time and clearly I will need to try something different next time . But as always there are winners and losers so big congrats to all the big winners this time... to GB on their second TISC victory and to for a stunning bronze medal success And my final note goes to the silver medal winners Brazil..... "Hear Me Now" was an amazing choice of song and by coincidence I heard the song for the first time in the same week that it was nominated for representation here at TISC! Absolutely loved it and as Wanderer said earlier, this definitely was right on the mark in terms of my taste. Thanks to all for a fun-filled contest, as always I enjoyed your company and looking forward to TISC Open in Tunisia later this year. I'm going back to the bar now to rejoin Séamus, apparently there is a free-bar courtesy of our kind hosts so come join us if you want to continue the party

I'm still here! I just joined Séamus at the bar earlier this time, he is buying me some drinks to drown my sorrows

Still looking good for Brazil!

It would be nice to get one big score soon to move us to the mid-pack.

Looks like we have a tie for the lead once more.

Ahh, the president of The Committee himself

Remind me, who is the next Committee member?

i can't see any flags or the logo

This is all over the place, love it

Serbia in the lead!!

Good stuff Moldovan jury, points for all! Congrats Russia and India

Thanks a million Moldova!

What? How have I never heard of this

Congratulations to Greece for getting off the mark Now just Russia and India

A danger for the other title contenders in this TISC Annual .

I wouldn't bet against it!

GB scoring points consistently, looking dangerous for another win this year!

Thank you kindly Malta

You're welcome, nice song Long way to go, don't give up

So what's everyone having for lunch?