OlympicIRL

Fingers and toes crossed that Ellis O'Reilly can become Ireland's first ever female Olympic gymnast

And I'm inside the cover of my bubble once more

Hey, don't burst my bubble

Wow!! That's great news, thanks I'm glad because he is a decent gymnast on the floor, hopefully he can do make a nice result in Rio!

40th place for Kieran Behan, I'm guessing his Olympic hopes are gone now?

Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016 ATHLETICS Men's 100m Round 1 Qualification Criteria - Top 3 qualify + 2 fastest losers WR 9.58 secs OR 9.62 secs Heat 1 - Olympic Stadium (20:00) GMT-3 Rank Athlete Result 1 Usain Bolt 9.75 Q 2 Justin Gatlin 9.80 Q 3 Dwain Chambers 9.91 Q 4 Jimmy Vicaut 9.93 q 5 Nesta Carter 9.95 q 6 Kim Collins 9.95 7 Femi Ogunode 10.01 8 Jacques Riparelli 10.06 Heat 2 - Olympic Stadium (20:07) GMT-3 Rank Athlete Result 1 Usain Bolt 9.75 Q 2 Justin Gatlin 9.80 Q 3 Dwain Chambers 9.91 Q 4 Jimmy Vicaut 9.93 q 5 Nesta Carter 9.95 q 6 Kim Collins 9.95 7 Femi Ogunode 10.01 8 Jacques Riparelli 10.06 Heat 3 - Olympic Stadium (20:14) GMT-3 Rank Athlete Result 1 Usain Bolt 9.75 Q 2 Justin Gatlin 9.80 Q 3 Dwain Chambers 9.91 Q 4 Jimmy Vicaut 9.93 q 5 Nesta Carter 9.95 q 6 Kim Collins 9.95 7 Femi Ogunode 10.01 8 Jacques Riparelli 10.06 Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016 FOOTBALL Men's Tournament First Round Group Stage - Matchday 3 Qualification Criteria - Top 2 from each Group after Matchday 3 qualify for Quarterfinals Group 1 - Results United Arab Emirates 1 vs 2 Uruguay Great Britain 1 vs 1 Senegal Senegal 2 vs 0 Uruguay Great Britain 3 vs 1 United Arab Emirates Senegal 1 vs 1 United Arab Emirates Great Britain 1 vs 0 Uruguay Group 1 - Standings after Matchday 3 Nation P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Great Britain 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7 2 Senegal 3 1 2 0 4 2 +2 5 3 Uruguay 3 1 0 2 2 4 -2 3 4 United Arab Emirates 3 0 1 2 3 6 -3 1 Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016 FOOTBALL Men's Tournament Knockout Stages Quarterfinals Semifinals Medal Matches Quarterfinal 1 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Semifinal 1 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Quarterfinal 2 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Gold Medal Match United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Bronze Medal Match United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Quarterfinal 3 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Semifinal 2 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1 Quarterfinal 4 United Arab Emirates 1 Great Britain 1

My prediction for the Asian qualifiers: Group A: Uzbekistan, Iran to qualify automatically; South Korea to play-offs Group B: Japan, Australia to qualify automatically; Saudi Arabia to play-offs

Yeah, RTÉ will have live online streams too, they had 12 online channels for London 2012.

Here this video pretty much sums it up.... and believe me, this is just the tip of the iceberg . Well actually, that was just a joke video but it might as well have been the real thing RTÉ are shameful beyond words, just look at how they treat Eurovision year after year, making sure we send the worst possible "candidate" and openly stating that we can't afford to win so a place in the final will be a good result

RTÉ are a joke as with everything they are involved with..... Jimmy Magee will be commentating on coverage for what must be his 100th Olympics and he's probably the least bad thing about the coverage . Do I really have to go into details TV3 are god awful.... and yet they will probably be a step up from RTÉ . Sky Sports' GAA coverage is just B-A-D. Anti-British bias? Not really, I think that's usually reserved for the English team at the World Cup.

Ahh, good to hear. Kerry is a great spot to visit. Yeah I'm from Donegal . I never thought I'd live to see the day when the Healy-Rae name made it onto a sports forum....seems like they are taking over

Haha . Hey, I can't steal what is given to me for free

Ahh, so you're a Kerryman? The final is on Sunday week, so the 24th I think. Pat Spillane, Joe Brolly and Colm O'Rourke.... God help us for yet another year of their input

I live in the Republic, just a few miles from the Northern Ireland border. Where I live we are able to receive BBC Northern Ireland on Freeview and also I have Sky Ireland package too so I'm all good in that regard. Thank God because having to rely on RTÉ would drive me mad

This is still very good. Not as good as the wonderful scenario of controlling everything with a remote control across endless Olympic channels as in London 2012 and without fear of internet crashing, but the BBC was the host broadcaster that time so it was to be expected coverage would be scaled back a bit. Everything is still online so that's pretty good anyway. Plus I have RTÉ which will add more coverage for Irish users in addition to BBC. I can't complain. Hopefully will be the same for 2020 and beyond

BBC's coverage of London 2012 was simply phenomenal.... I will never forget being able to flick through all those Olympic channels and being able to watch whatever I wanted. I wonder will they be able to repeat this level of coverage for Rio 2016. Edit: I see my question has been answered above

I will for sure. My idea is that for team sports, we could imagine the templates like a wall-planner you sometimes get in advance of some big football tournament and you fill in the scores with your pen as the matches progress. Similarly, there is no reason we can't do that here for all team sports during the Olympics.... the schedule and fixtures will be known in advance so we can create nice templates for them and it should be relatively easy to keep them updated as the Olympics progresses. Individual sports would be more tricky because in athletics for example, the draws for the heats of each event usually takes place only 1-2 days in advance of the event. But we can still have a pre-ordered template and the names of each athlete will just have to be filled. I was thinking of something with a nice design, incorporating the Olympic rings symbol, and uniform sort of style (colour, layout, etc.), it will be like our special Totallympics templates for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. They should look nice as it is a major event (after all the Olympics are what we are all about here ).

Maybe we can create some fancy templates for the Olympic Games so that results (especially team events results) could be posted with ease as the Games progresses. The template could be filled in advance, minus the results, which will obviously be filled as each day passes. I don't mind creating some sample templates and seeing what users think.

As always, I'm just happy we are participating at all

It's unfortunate for sure but we mustn't be too sad because we are close to equalling record number of nations competing at TISC Annual (current record is 35).

I noticed could also be absent too for first time ever.

Seems like we are in danger of losing two of the ever-present members of TISC this time with the absence of Egypt and Czech Republic.

Haha, Paul McGinley was commentating here and he said Louis almost scored two holes in one with one shot

Yes, I saw!! Davis Love III got one too!

No worries