OlympicIRL

What a silver for Christou

Yep, always assume zero medals in boxing when making your predictions because you can’t rely on anything.

McIntosh reigns supreme

Simone Biles is an absolutely incredible gymnast

A gold medal tomorrow for our men’s lightweight double rowers would mean we’ve already surpassed our Tokyo 2020 performance and would begin to zone in on surpassing Atlanta as our best Olympics on record.

We have to believe it’s lady luck looking down on our sailors and we can have a bash tomorrow at a historic medal.

With those conditions though it could have easily went the other way again. So it’s a good thing they abandoned it and let it be raced in better conditions to allow the sailors a fair crack at the medal race.

Never so happy to see a flag other than the Irish tricolour there. Medal race abandoned so we get a reprieve for now

Things not going well for the sailing boys so far in the medal race. Hopefully they can get going soon or a medal is slipping away

Algeria can be so proud of this achievement

Taking the Irish public for mugs. I always liked Neville Maxwell’s insights. He was always balanced and never far off the mark with his predictions and gave a realistic opinion of Irish chances.

Ireland safely through to tomorrow’s team jumping final. Scores reset to zero for the final so mission accomplished today

9th for Finn Lynch in his opening race, not a bad start to the regatta. Lost a couple of spots on the last downwind leg but 9th is a solid opener. Main thing in this huge boat class is to be consistent throughout and that gets rewarded.

I’m watching Discovery for almost everything too but always switch the RTÉ for an Irish final to get post race interviews and such.

4 days in a row for Ireland winning a medal! Incredible for us given how we so often struggle at Olympics to get podiums!

He’s beyond awful and for someone who is supposed to have insider knowledge, he doesn’t have any realistic perception about the other crews around the world and his default is always that Ireland are gonna win and bet your house on it. So frustrating listening to that guff, imagine if that was BBC doing the same for their athletes, we’d be rightly calling out the BS.

Great stuff! We would have taken this bronze before the Olympics. Just don’t listen to RTÉ analysis if you want to stay sane

Medal for Ireland in the men’s doubles ! I would have taken that before the Olympics

Adeleke won’t run in the mixed relay to focus on the individual so that rules Ireland out of a medal tilt in the relays. Disappointing as we come in as European champions but it is what it is, the schedule threw up a headache and there was going to have to be a sacrifice somewhere. Would have liked to see her subbed in if we made a final (though would be a tough ask without her) but seems like that’s been ruled out as well: https://m.independent.ie/sport/olympics/rhasidat-adeleke-likely-to-miss-irish-mixed-relay-teams-bid-for-olympic-medal-to-focus-on-400m-quest/a1880908355.html

Adeleke won’t run the mixed relay. Disappointed by this as we are losing a big medal chance here. I know the flip side is that Adeleke will have a stronger chance of medaling in the individual but still going to be tough. Would have agreed she should skip the heat and if we qualify for the final then to sub her in but hey ho, looks like she is opted out of it completely. Seems mad to be honest. https://m.independent.ie/sport/olympics/rhasidat-adeleke-likely-to-miss-irish-mixed-relay-teams-bid-for-olympic-medal-to-focus-on-400m-quest/a1880908355.html

Well that has put a dampener on things again. Struggling to see where another medal is coming from in boxing outside of Harrington. Though not unexpected for me, I didn’t fancy our boxers to set the world alight to be honest. And O’Rourke did not fight well at all there, I think she can’t argue with the outcome to be honest. I am never confident with O’Rourke and that fight is exactly why. Overall not overly miffed by these result, had prepared myself for boxing not to deliver for us.

Oh is it time for the final of the Equatorial Guinea national champs 100m freestyle?

2 cracking races to kick off the evening session! Wow!

Spoil sport (kidding ofc).

@Gianlu33 Kelly Harrington secured at least bronze today in women’s boxing. Wondering is that enough to keep our streak going? Hint: please say yes