OlympicIRL

That or they thought it was the 1x105m relay

So with these championships coming to an end, I am suddenly so excited for the Olympic Games.... just the 2 years to wait

This time Montenegro is the dominant brother so it should be Montenegro-Serbia

5th place for Lavin, another great result for our athletes. We've had so many solid results at these championships, mixed in with a lot of positive and exciting results from our younger athletes. Very pleased with our European Championships campaign and lots of hope to take forward into the remainder of this Olympic cycle

6th place for Gidey and a PB, fantastic

Mark English actually went to the same secondary school as me but he was a bit younger than me

BRONZE!!! Yesss Mark!!!

PB for Sarah Lavin and into the women's 100m Hurdles final

Bennett wins stage 2 and 3.... awesome to see him back on winning ways!

Just outside the NR but a 6th place, not bad at all

I'm hoping our women's relay team can have a great race now.... maybe another national record but I'm probably hoping for too much. Still, come on girls

Kambundji All the Swiss users on Totallympics must be overjoyed

Belle is just using an age-old tactic from TISC, let’s see if it works

My Mum said “Look, it’s Mr.T”

Raitanen!!!

Mageeeeeeeeaaaan!!

Irish record for Adeleke After 48 races this year, in lane 1, still doesn’t train fully for this event, still 19 years old and 5th in Europe …. just amazing performance

I think Daniel Wiffen is an exciting prospect for Paris. He’s already in and around top 8 in 800m freestyle which is his best event and he reached the world final this year. But at the Commonwealths he also brought his 400 and 1500 times to a world class level which will certainly bode well for his future progress in the 800. If he can keep progressing over the next 2 years he could very well be in with a shout of being on the podium. You can’t take anything for granted though but I think he’ll be our best shot a medal in the pool in Paris. Even if he doesn’t medal, it would be amazing to see an Irish athlete who can mix it with the best and give us something to really cheer for. I am not confident any of our hockey teams will make it. The men aren’t really competitive enough with the top teams these days and the women have proved to be very beatable in recent years. I think we will have both rugby sevens teams at the Olympics however and hopefully they can put in a good showing there. I think we will qualify in fewer sports this time and fewer athletes (maybe around 90-100) but rugby sevens and athletics might help boost our numbers even if we lose out in other areas like hockey, judo, pentathlon, possibly cycling (though we could go up in that sport too if we have a good couple of years). I think we’ll win 4-5 medals which if I’m honest would be disappointing after Tokyo and considering we have an established aim to ramp up our medals in the coming cycles. I think though if we can win 2 golds again it will be another big boost to morale and if we do finish with 4-5 medals but with 2 golds, it wouldn’t be considered a total disaster. I am kind of pinning all my hopes on rowing. And I don’t mean that rowing is the only sport we can win medals. But I am hoping we can be in a position going into the Olympics where are expecting a couple of medals and then hoping other sports like boxing can add the icing on the cake.

I absolutely love this... Olatunde celebrating his 6th place and National Record like it was a gold medal. Amazing to see

Being in an outside lane in a 100m can often be an advantage if you are not one of the favourites because if you are in a middle lane and 2 athletes either side of you get a great start, some athletes tighten up and they don't run as smoothly so I think being in an outside lane for Volko may have been no bad thing. He did awesome

Irish Record for Olatunde Again he finishes so strongly.... if he can get a better start he can be up there and hopefully in the years to come he can aim to break 10 seconds. Awesome to see an Irish guy in the 100m final

"Unsteady start" was the official term

Olatunde!!!

We are just 2 years out from the Paris 2024 Olympics so I thought it would be nice time to open a thread so we can write our hopes for Ireland at the next Games. How many medals do you think we will win? Do you think we have made progress in this Olympic cycle in comparison to previous ones? Which sports are performing better / worse than expected? Which athletes do you think we are going to be talking about as medal prospects in 2 years time? What would constitute a good, average or bad Games for Ireland in terms of medals and overall performance? How many athletes do you think we will qualify? @dodge @Oldira @Cosmo Kramer @mpjmcevoy What are your thoughts? Would be fun to look back at this in 2 years time just after the Olympics to see how things change in that time.

That's the new youth and urban policy.... 0.43 secs and attention span of the youth is gone so gotta keep moving on.