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Sure, I can volunteer for 1 hour. What do you need me to do?

I would like to make an effort later this year to update the TISC stats for historical purposes and even create new stats but as you can imagine it’s a time consuming project. But I always feel it’s a worthwhile endeavour to have all sorts of data relating to the contest to make it more interesting and build up the history. If any of you have an interest and would like to help out, please message me to let me know, I’d appreciate it

IRELAND Ireland will be represented in this year's TISC Open by Chris de Burgh with this song A Spaceman Came Travelling. The song was first released as part of his 1975 album Spanish Train And Other Stories. I hope you enjoy! Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

Javelin medal for Ireland… that’s not something you see everyday or in fact ever!

Got you, that makes sense

I didn’t have time to review yet but Ireland had way more than 88 quotas if I am assuming you mean quotas = athletes?

Ireland will be there

No I know exactly what you mean, I think we'd all love to see him have a crack at even bigger heights to see what is the limit of his abilities but we know that won't happen. This reminded me in the past when my mother would always be annoyed by Yelena Isinbayeva who according to her just hid under a towel all day and then would come out at the end and put 1cm on the bar to break the record. She never remembered her name and would call her "that annoying one with the towel"

Ireland claim 4 medals at 2024 World Rowing Championships Ireland wrapped up a successful week in the water at the 2024 World Rowing Championships in St.Catherine's, Canada with a haul of 4 medals including 2 golds and 2 bronze. The highlight of the performances came from double Olympic champion, Paul O'Donovan, who claimed his third world title in the men's senior lightweight singles category. Reigning champion Siobhán McCrohan claimed another medal in the women's senior lightweight single sculls, this time having to settle for the bronze medal behind 2022 champion and Olympic medalist, Ionela Cozmiuc of Romania. In the Under 23 category, Ireland's Ciaran Purdy and Donnacha Keeley carried on the fantastic success of Irish men's lightweight rowing by claiming gold in the lightweight double sculls. Meanwhile Brian Colsh partnered with Adam Murphy to claim the bronze in the men's heavyweight doubles sculls. There were no medals for Ireland in the under 19 categories, but they did have a few creditable results, including a 4th place finish for the junior men's quadruple sculls squad. Overall a good championships for Ireland with plenty of young blood to keep the success and momentum going into the future. World Senior Championships: Gold Men's Lightweight Single Sculls Paul O'Donovan (30) Bronze Women's Lightweight Single Sculls Siobhán McCrohan (37) World U23 Championships: Gold Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Ciaran Purdy (22), Donnacha Keeley (20) Bronze Men's Double Sculls Adam Murphy (21), Brian Colsh (22) 6th Place Men's Single Sculls Andrew Sheehan (21) 6th Place Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Sophia Monahan (19), Aine O'Mahony (22) 7th Place Men's Quadruple Sculls Shane Rafferty (19), Fergus Bryce (20), Donagh Claffey (20), Fionn O'Reilly (21) B Final (DNS) Women's Double Sculls Holly Davis (19), Grace Healy (21) 14th Place Men's Four Andrew O'Leary (19), Luke Dunleavy (21), Liam Walter (19), Rory Buckley (20) World U19 Championships: 4th Place Men's Quadruple Sculls Michael McGrath (17), Jack Rafferty (17), Rian Claffey (18), Sean Morris (18) 5th Place Men's Coxed Four Dominic Casey (18), Mattias Cogan (16), Michael Daniel Lucey (18), Evan O'Byrne (16), Luke Fitzgerald (Cox) (17) 7th Place Women's Double Sculls Anna Brennan (18), Moya Knowles (18) https://twitter.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1827437214831140958|twgr^9b75ba1c2576db766cd12bc22890ba27a127c529|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Fsport%2Fother-sports%2Fpaul-odonovan-passionately-sings-national-anthem-after-winning-lightweight-single-sculls-final-at-world-rowing-championships%2Fa2127035969.htmlhttps://x.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958 https://x.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/1827437214831140958

Yes, he will only increase by 1cm at a time, so for example if he was to reach 6.38m, that would need 12 more world record to be broken. So let's say, how many times is he likely to break a world record in a season. Logic tells you it will get harder and harder to do so. Let's look at the last few seasons to see how many times he broke the world record: 2022: 3 times 2023: 2 times 2024: 3 times So if we say he is able to break the record 3 times a year (which will obviously get harder to do as he raises it further each time) to get to 6.38m it would take him another 4 years which I think is about doable. But it also depends on him staying at the current level and even getting better, which I think he can as well. Makes you appreciate getting to see Mondo and these WRs because in a couple of years time these might become very rare and might be one of those records that lasts for decades.

I wonder how many more times we will see Mondo break the world record in his career? 10 more times? He definitely has the ability to go at least 10cm higher if not even more. But takes quite a while to add 10cm to the record so it will be a matter of keeping longevity too.... how long can he stay in this peak condition? Can he get even better? Interesting to ponder how many more times he has a record in him. I think he will leave the record somewhere at 6.38m by the end of his career.

Mondooooo !!!

For a seasoned runner, that was a very amateur move to slow up way too early... and not just easing off either, basically just walking over the line. He got lucky this time!

Paul O'Donovan won gold in the men's lightweight single sculls in what is most likely his last ever race in lightweight rowing. Well done Paul Siobhan McCrohan won bronze in the women's lightweight singles to add to her tally of world medals. @Makedonas 2 medals for Greece in these events too

Not sure where to post this since I don't want to just stick it in the music thread, but I have to say I absolutely loved Eurosport's Paris 2024 theme, which they played throughout. This really added to my overall experiences and memories of the Games. It sounds very dramatic and menacing at times, in a good way, but just loved it

Israel Olatunde breaks Irish 100m National Record Israel Olatunde set a new Irish NR in the 100m at the NEB Open meeting in London this afternoon. His time of 10.12 secs (+1.7 m/s) carved 0.05 secs off his current Irish record which he set at the European Championships in Munich in 2022. Great start to the LA 2028 Olympic cycle by Olatunde . As a reminder, the automatic qualification standard for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo is 10.00 secs so he still has a little bit to go to reach that but this is an encouraging result in what has been a difficult 2 years for Israel.

I agree, it's quite distracting to be honest. Do we really need to see comments and replies from other threads on the right of the thread we are currently reading?

Just a reminder that the U23 and Senior categories kick-off today and you can watch here on the World Rowing Youtube channel:

I have opened a new thread for us to track our athletes' journey in this new Olympic cycle. This week we have a chance to see some of our up and coming stars in the sport of rowing as the 2024 World Senior, U23 and U19 Championships gets underway in St.Catharine's, Canada. You can watch coverage of all the races here: https://worldrowing.com/event/2024-world-rowing-senior-under-23-under-19-championships/ Irish entries: World Senior Championships Lightweight Men's Single Sculls Paul O'Donovan World Senior Championships Lightweight Women's Single Sculls Siobhan McCrohan World U19 Championships Men's Coxed Fours Dominic Casey, Mattias Cogan, Michael Daniel Lucey, Evan O'Byrne, Luke Fitzgerald (Cox) World U19 Championships Men's Quadruple Sculls Michael McGrath, Jack Rafferty, Rian Claffey, Sean Morris World U19 Championships Women's Double Sculls Anna Brennan, Moya Knowles World U23 Championships Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Ciaran Purdy, Donnacha Keeley World U23 Championships Men's Single Sculls Andrew Sheehan World U23 Championships Men's Double Sculls Adam Murphy, Brian Colsh World U23 Championships Men's Four Andrew O'Leary, Luke Dunleavy, Liam Walter, Rory Buckley World U23 Championships Men's Quadruple Sculls Shane Rafferty, Fergus Bryce, Donagh Claffey, Fionn O'Reilly World U23 Championships Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Sophia Monahan, Aine O'Mahony World U23 Championships Women's Double Sculls Holly Davis, Grace Healy Irish Schedule today, Sunday 18th August (all time in Irish time): 14:57 U23 Women's Double Sculls Heats Holly Davis, Grace Healy 15:02 U23 Men's Double Sculls Heats Adam Murphy, Brian Colsh 15:37 U23 Men's Four Heats Andrew O'Leary, Luke Dunleavy, Liam Walter, Rory Buckley 19:45 Senior Men's LW Single Sculls Heats Paul O'Donovan 19:52 U23 Women's LW Double Sculls Heats Sophia Monahan, Aine O'Mahony 20:12 U23 Men's Quadruple Sculls Heats Shane Rafferty, Fergus Bryce, Donagh Claffey, Fionn O'Reilly 20:22 U23 Men's LW Double Sculls Heats Ciaran Purdy, Donnacha Keeley 20:39 U23 Men's Single Sculls Heats Andrew Sheehan

This thread will be our general space to discuss and post news about Team Ireland on the long road to Los Angeles 2028!

Not sure of the official date yet as @Cinnamon Bun is on holiday until next week but keep looking in the next week or two and the thread should be opened then and we will have a schedule soon after

Set Sails for Britannia - TISC Open 2024 As some of you may be aware we are fast approaching our next edition of TISC Open, the 24th iteration of our international song contest here on Totallympics. As champions in the previous edition , Great Britain have been awarded the hosting rights and I’m delighted to announce that @Cinnamon Bun has accepted. This means that we will be travelling to Great Britain for the second time and for the first time since TISC Annual 2017! Stay tuned in the coming days and weeks for the opening of the thread for TISC Open 2024! Rule Change Proposal: While we wait for the opening of the new thread we do a rule change we need to vote on as proposed by @Vektor after the previous edition. This vote is open to all previous participants of TISC. As you know TISC Open is only open to songs that are 5 years or older (released before December 31st, 2019). The new rule if implemented would allow newer version of a song to be chosen, providing the original version was released more than 5 years ago, and also the new release must also be sung or performed by the original artist (not a copy from another artist). This is not specifically a rule change, more a clarification of the existing rule to make it clearer as to what is acceptable. Do you agree with this change: (a) Yes (b) No Voting closes on August 27th, 2024 so please cast your votes now . If the vote receives a majority vote then it will be written into the rules.

Just realised Ireland are competing in this tournament. Extra incentive now to watch and learn

Never mind table tennis, we should remove men’s pole vault due to lack of competition. Who’s with me?

Thank you Paris 2024... in the words of Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston, I will always love you!