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QUALIFICATION UPDATE Athletics Ireland today announced their finalised team of 25 athletes and 2 alternates who will represent Ireland at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. The selection confirmed Leon Reid's participation in the men's 200m which had been in doubt. It also settled the matter of the mixed relay team nominations with Phil Healy, Sophie Becker, Cillin Greene, Chris O'Donnell, Robert McDonnell and Cliodhna Manning named as members of the relay squad. Meanwhile, Olympic veteran Derek Burnett has been officially nominated to represent Ireland in the men's trap shooting event in Tokyo. It will be the 51-year-old's fifth Olympic Games, having competed previously in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. He equals the record of most Olympic Games appearances by an Irish athlete, currently held jointly by Olympic medalists Robert Heffernan (athletics) and David Wilkinson (sailing). That means we now have secured 116 athlete quotas (62 men and 56 women) with representatives in 72 events, across 20 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 116 athletes 61 men athletes 55 women athletes 72 events 20 sports ATHLETICS QUALIFIERS: 27 ATHLETICS NAME QUALIFICATION Men's 200m REID Leon By World Ranking LAWLER Marcus Men's 800m ENGLISH Mark By Entry Standard Men's 1500m COSCORAN Andrew By World Ranking Men's 400m Hurdles BARR Thomas By Entry Standard Men's 20km Race Walk WRIGHT Alex By Entry Standard KENNY David By World Ranking Men's 50km Race Walk BOYCE Brendan By Entry Standard WRIGHT Alex By World Ranking Men's Marathon SCULLION Stephen By Entry Standard SEAWARD Kevin By Entry Standard POLLOCK Paul By Entry Standard Women's 200m HEALY Phil By World Ranking Women's 400m HEALY Phil By World Ranking Women's 800m POWER Nadia By World Ranking CLÉIRIGH-BUTTNER Síofra SHANAHAN Louise Women's 1500m MAGEEAN Ciara By Entry Standard HEALY Sarah By World Ranking Women's 100m Hurdles LAVAN Sarah By World Ranking Women's 3000m Steeplechase FINN Michelle By Entry Standard FLANAGAN Eilish By World Ranking Women's Marathon McCORMACK Fionnuala By Entry Standard COOKE Aoife By Entry Standard Mixed 4x400m Relay GREENE Cillin 2021 World Athletics Relays, 7th Place O'DONNELL Chris HEALY Phil BECKER Sophie McDONNELL Robert MANNING Cliodhna 1 SHOOTING NAME QUALIFICATION Men's Trap BURNETT Derek By MQS The full qualification tracker can be found here:

Yes and Athletics Ireland named 6 for our mixed relay with no mention who the reserves are, just that the team will be 4 of those 6. So I'm thinking those are 6 official quotas.

Is the mixed 4x400m relay in athletics counting as 4 quotas or 6? I'm still confused about that

Yeah the Tokyo OBS intro is very disappointing, it could and should have been great. The Beijing one was pretty bad as well. I liked almost all of the rest.

These are the only 2 Olympic intros I can find from our national broadcaster.... RTÉ Olympic Intro - Beijing 2008 RTÉ Olympic Intro - London 2012

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Got my first dose of the vaccine today The second dose is scheduled for August 4th. So when the nurse told me to wait for 15 mins after my jab and gave me a leaflet to read, I of course was reading a more important document, the Olympic schedule Thankfully I won’t miss too much action. The individual jumping final in equestrian is on at that time but I can rewind it when I get home if needed. Considering how stressful watching Olympic final in jumping is it might be no harm to just read the updates instead of live viewing

QUALIFICATION UPDATE Swim Ireland today announced a team of 9 swimmers to represent Ireland at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Joining the 6 already selected swimmers will be Brendan Hyland, who received an OST invitation from FINA. Swim Ireland confirmed that this invitation proved crucial in ensuring that Ireland could field a men's 4x200m freestyle relay team because per rules a nation may only enter 2 relay-only swimmers in the event. It is for this reason that Swim Ireland approved Brendan Hyland's invite, contrary to the usual policy position of refusing such invitations. The two relay-only swimmers have been named as Jack McMillan and Finn McGeever. In addition, some of the OQT swimmers on the team have been approved to swim in a second event in which they had achieved the OST standard. Full details of the events the Irish team will participate in can be found below. That means we now have secured 116 athlete quotas (61 men and 55 women) with representatives in 72 events, across 20 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 116 athletes 61 men athletes 55 women athletes 72 events 20 sports SWIMMING QUALIFIERS: 9 SWIMMING NAME QUALIFICATION Men's 800m Freestyle WIFFIN, Daniel By OQT Entry Standard Men's 1500m Freestyle WIFFIN, Daniel By OST Entry Standard Men's 100m Backstroke RYAN Shane By OQT Entry Standard Men's 100m Breaststroke GREENE Darragh By OQT Entry Standard Men's 200m Breaststroke GREENE Darragh By OQT Entry Standard Men's 100m Butterfly RYAN Shane By OST Entry Standard Men's 200m Butterfly HYLAND Brendan By OST Entry Standard Women's 50m Freestyle HILL Danielle By OST Entry Standard Women's 100m Backstroke HILL Danielle By OQT Entry Standard Women's 100m Breaststroke McSHARRY Mona By OQT Entry Standard Women's 200m Breaststroke McSHARRY Mona By OST Entry Standard Women's 100m Butterfly WALSHE Ellen By OST Entry Standard Women's 200m Individual Medley WALSHE Ellen By OQT Entry Standard Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay HYLAND Brendan FINA World Rankings, 4th Wildcard Spot McGEEVER Finn McMILLAN Jack RYAN Shane The full qualification tracker can be found here:

OBS Olympic Intro - Seoul 1988 (beautiful music and love the simplicity of the video too ) OBS Olympic Intro - Barcelona 1992 OBS Olympic Intro - Atlanta 1996 (amazing music) OBS Olympic Intro - Sydney 2000 (I love the music in this one ) OBS Olympic Intro - Athens 2004 OBS Olympic Intro - Beijing 2008 OBS Olympic Intro - London 2012 (very slick) OBS Olympic Intro - Rio 2016 OBS Olympic Intro - Tokyo 2020

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Yes that’s exactly it, Brendan Hyland achieved the OST and was invited by FINA so he and Shane Ryan will swim the relay along with the 2 relay-only swimmers (McMillan and McKeever). Swim Ireland said that Hyland was the only invitation they received from FINA for an OST swimmer and that was fortunate as it allowed them to participate in the relay. It was also fortunate for Hyland as Swim Ireland said in any other circumstance they wouldn’t have accepted any OST invitation from FINA

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OLYMPIC TEAM UPDATE The Irish men's rugby sevens team for the upcoming Olympic Games has been named (including 12 team members and an additional reserve): Jordan Conroy Billy Dardis Ian Fitzpatrick Foster Horan Jack Kelly Terry Kennedy Adam Leavy Hugo Lennox Harry McNulty Gavin Mullin Greg O’Shea Mark Roche Bryan Mollen - Reserve Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 115 athletes 60 men athletes 55 women athletes 66 events 20 sports MENS RUGBY SEVENS TEAM (12 members and 1 reserve): 12 RUGBY SEVENS NAME QUALIFICATION Men's Tournament CONROY Jordan Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Winner 12 athletes DARDIS Billy FITZPATRICK Ian HORAN Foster KELLY Jack KENNEDY Terry LEAVY Adam LENNOX Hugo McNULTY Harry MULLIN Gavin O'SHEA Greg ROCHE Mark MOLLEN Ryan (reserve) The full qualification tracker can be found here:

is the model of consistency

Sydney 2000 was the only Olympics I couldn’t follow fully because I was at secondary school at the time Since that I have watched all the Summer Games pretty much fully (obviously not fully but you know what I mean). Winter Olympics is another story of course, I don’t change my schedule for those but I did stay awake some nights during Vancouver 2010 because I wasn’t at school, didn’t have a job and had that luxury

Incredible (and sad) to see Cuba with only 69 athletes!

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have named a team of 472 athletes: https://www.olympics.com.au/news/australian-olympic-team-for-tokyo-finalised/ Breakdown per sport can be found here on the Australian Olympic Committee website: https://www.olympics.com.au/games/tokyo-2020/team/

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Someone should inform them they are 25 years too late

name a team of 30 athletes for the Olympics. They also named 5 others in athletics who will be added if they get invitations from World Athletics via the world rankings prociess. Of these 5, only 3 are currently inside the quota places in the Road To Tokyo rankings (Gunta Vaičule in W 200m and Rolands Štrobinders in M Javelin are just outside the quotas currently). https://olimpiade.lv/lv/jaunumi/zinas/latvijas-komanda-olimpiskajas-speles-tokija-apstiprinati-30-sportisti-14-sporta-veidos-2079 https://olimpiade.lv/upload/content/30_sportisti_lok_ik_tokyo2020_komandas_prezentacija_medijiem.pdf Latvia - 30 (5 Athletics - 4 Basketball 3x3 - 4 Beach Volley - 1 Canoeing Sprint - 2 Cycling BMX Racing - 2 Cycling Road - 1 Equestrian - 1 Judo - 1 Karate - 1 Modern Pentathlon - 1 Shooting - 2 Swimming - 2 Tennis - 2 Weighlifting - 1 Wrestling)

@Benolympique will send a team of 14 athletes to Tokyo: https://swimswam.com/amro-al-wir-rounds-out-jordans-largest-olympic-swimming-roster-in-history/ https://www.joc.jo/en/news/3603/final-team-jordan-member-confirmed-for-olympics/

@Benolympique name a team of 12 swimmers (7 men and 5 women). https://swimswam.com/world-junior-record-holder-hwang-sunwoo-heads-up-korean-oly-roster/ 2 swimmers (1 man and 1 woman) https://swimswam.com/colombia-names-murillo-and-arcila-to-2020-tokyo-olympic-roster/ 4 swimmers - 3 in pool and 1 in open water (2 men and 2 women) https://swimswam.com/olympic-champion-schooling-leads-singaporean-squad-for-tokyo/ name a team of 2 swimmers (1 man and 1 woman) https://swimswam.com/olympic-champion-schooling-leads-singaporean-squad-for-tokyo/

BBC Olympic Intro - Los Angeles 1984 BBC Olympic Intro - Barcelona 1992 BBC Olympic Intro - Atlanta 1996 BBC Olympic Intro - Sydney 2000 BBC Olympic Intro - Athens 2004 BBC Olympic Intro - Beijing 2008 BBC Olympic Intro - London 2012 (the best ever) BBC Olympic Intro - Rio 2016 BBC Olympic Intro - Tokyo 2020 (Trailer)

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