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I see some Angora will march into the stadium in position #15, that should be fun

We'll be back to normal duties in Paris

Too bad they didn't separate Surobakia and Surobenia

Here is the order the nations will march during the Parade of Nations (according to wikipedia at least): Airurando (aka Ireland ) will be the 4th nation into the stadium after Greece, the refugee team and Iceland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations

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I think they are in shock . That was some swim! She has smashed her personal best at this meet.

Ellen Walshe just qualified in the women's 200m individual medley with a time of 2:12.02 mins inside the OQT of 2:12.56 mins. Wow!! @Oldira

So with Oman getting a wildcard in men’s -81kg I think that means no quota for Ireland after all?

@Swewi has competed for Sweden in curling as far as I remember.

QUALIFICATION UPDATE Updated with the qualification of Danielle Hill in women's 100m backstroke after swimming the OQT standard at the Irish Performance Meeting today. I have also reinstated Heike Holstein in Dressage who receives an individual quota spot after the withdrawal of the team (pending appeal). We now have 97 athlete quotas (53 men and 44 women) in 53 events, across 19 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 97 athletes 53 men athletes 44 women athletes 53 events 19 sports NEW QUALIFIER: 1 EQUESTRIAN NAME QUALIFICATION Individual Eventing HOLSTEIN Heike Sambuca Received reallocated quota after Irish dressage team withdrew (pending Appeal) 1 SWIMMING NAME QUALIFICATION Women's 100m Backstroke HILL Danielle By OQT Entry Standard The full qualification tracker can be found here:

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@mrv86 @Braulio Unfortunately our man Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe is injured and has to withdraw his quota but it's nice to see he is supporting your guy with some nice words for Alvaro (I assume it is he who will get his re-allocated quota?)

QUALIFICATION UPDATE Updated with confirmation of the historic qualification of Tanya Watson who will become the first female diver to represent Ireland at an Olympic Games We now have 95 athlete quotas (53 men and 42 women) in 51 events, across 19 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 95 athletes 53 men athletes 42 women athletes 51 events 19 sports NEW QUALIFIER: 1 DIVING NAME QUALIFICATION Women's 10m Platform WATSON Tanya 2021 FINA World Cup, 14th Place The full qualification tracker can be found here:

Hahaha, this is insane!!

This is already old

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE Updated after the official confirmation that Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry have qualified for the Olympics in men's golf and the removal of the Irish dressage team quotas. We now have 94 athlete quotas (53 men and 41 women) in 50 events, across 18 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 94 athletes 53 men athletes 41 women athletes 50 events 18 sports NEW QUALIFIER: 2 GOLF NAME QUALIFICATION Men's Individual Stroke Play McILROY Rory Olympic Golf Ranking, 6th Place Men's Individual Stroke Play LOWRY Shane Olympic Golf Ranking, 18th Place The full qualification tracker can be found here:

If he didn't communicate his intention to withdraw the team to the athletes affected, then that's a disgrace and shame on him. Not surprising though, sadly.... these sorts of controversies are just so common that it's not shocking any more. It's just a lack of human decency if he didn't bother to let Rawlins and Connor, and Holstein for that matter, know what was coming... and they should have been allowed to make a case as well. Doubt much will come of their appeals, sadly.

I see a very important debate ongoing but can we all focus on the important issue here.... will Ireland get a weightlifting quota? That is what I want to know

I would like to see Brendan Boyce (men's 50km walk) and Natalya Coyle (women's modern pentathlon) given the honour. Both are long serving members of the team and have been quietly doing us proud over many years. For Brendan it will probably be his final Olympics as the men's 50km walk won't be on the programme in Paris 2024 and for Natalya, this could be her last Olympics too... she has been a wonderful servant to the Irish team, finishing 9th at London 2012 and 6th in Rio 2016, a huge achievement for an Irish pentathlete. Those would be my picks if I could make the choice but it would also be cool to see brother-sister boxing duo Aidan and Michaela Walsh. What a moment it would be for them and their family. I also agree with @mpjmcevoy that it would also be lovely to see the captains of the women's hockey team and men's rugby sevens team jointly being given the honour.

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The Irish equestrian team for the Olympics has been announced and the big news is that the dressage team has been withdrawn At most they can only hope to receive a reallocated quota in individual dressage but it's not certain either. We were never going to trouble the medals anyway but it's sad that our historic first team dressage qualification has come to this. However, the showjumping and eventing squads have been named....meet the team JUMPING: Bertram Allen with Pacino Amiro Darragh Kenny with VDL Cartello Cian O’Connor with Kilkenny Reserves: Shane Sweetnam with Karlin Van’t Vennehof Michael Duffy with Zilton SL Z ( EVENTING: Cathal Daniels with Rioghan Rua Sarah Ennis with Horseware Woodcourt Garrison Sam Watson with Tullabeg Flamenco Reserves: Austin O’Connor with Colorado Blue Joseph Murphy with Cesar V

The Irish women's hockey team for the Olympics was announced today: https://olympics.ie/hockey-team-announcement/ 1 Ayeisha McFerran (GK) 2 Chloe Watkins 3 Hannah Matthews 4 Sarah Torrans 5 Nicci Daly 6 Roisin Upton 7 Hannah McLoughlin 8 Deirdre Duke 9 Katie Mullan 10 Shirley McCay 11 Sarah Hawkshaw 12 Lena Tice 13 Naomi Carroll 14 Lizzie Holden 15 Sarah McAuley 16 Anna O’Flanagan ---------------------------------- RESERVE - Michelle Carey RESERVE - Zara Malseed RESERVE GOALKEEPER Liz Murphy GK

The Irish women's hockey team for the Olympics has been announced: https://olympics.ie/hockey-team-announcement/

in particular Indonesian badminton players. My favourite being the wonderful Susi Sunsanti, first ever women’s singles champion at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics. and also but I support many Asian nations when they are underdogs. I don’t have particular favourites.