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Before the world ranking qualifications close on Tuesday night, the following Irish athletes look to be safely inside the quota places and should be on the plane to Tokyo: Leon Reid (Men's 200m - though it’s uncertain yet if he will be selected) David Kenny (Men's 20km Walk) Phil Healy (Women's 200m) Nadia Power (Women's 800m) Sarah Healy (Women's 1500m) Sarah Lavin (Women's 100m Hurdles) Then we have a group of athletes where it is touch and go whether they will make the cut: Marcus Lawler (Men's 200m - not in good form but looking like he might scrape into the quota places, but it will go down to the wire) Mark English (Men's 800m - hanging on to one of the last quota places but has one final chance of getting an Auto Q on Tuesday in Spain) Andrew Coscoran (Men's 1500m - currently in 42nd with only 45 making the cut. He has a last ditch attempt to make the Auto Q in Lucerne on Tuesday but that also means other rivals will also be chasing the Auto Q time. I have a feeling he will just make it but it could go either way) Phil Healy (Women's 400m - obviously not a disaster for her if she doesn't make it since she will have the 200m and the mixed relay to fall back on. She is currently hanging on for a place in the 400m but could be overtaken once the rankings are updated). Síofra Cléirigh-Buttner (Women's 800m) Louise Shanahan (Women's 800m - both Síofra and Louise seem to have edged out their compatriot Georgie Hartigan for the qualifying places but they are far from safe and both were on either side of the cut-off line before this weekend. It's too close to call at the moment. There could be re-allocations which could help their cause if some nations and athletes decline their quota but still it is not going to be clear until the very last moment). There are a couple more with a faint glimmer of home (example: Tobin, Hartigan, O'Connor - needs withdrawals above her) but really I think the remaining quotas will come from the list above. For the mixed 4x400m relay, it looks like Cillín Greene and Chris O'Donnell are odds on to make the team as well as Phil Healy. The other 3 places are still up in the air.

Does anyone know if the Olympics are being broadcast on the Eurosport player in Ireland? @dodge

Looks like it's not just in athletics where there is something fishy going on in qualification meets in this part of the world https://swimswam.com/fina-invalidates-times-posted-at-uzbekistan-open-following-controversy/

dominating this second half!

looking very "dane"gerous now

Tokyo 2020 OBS Intro: @Olympian1010 you can add this to your Olympic intro playlist.

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE Updated after the official confirmation today that triathletes Carolyn Hayes and Russell White have qualified for the Olympics and have been selected for Team Ireland. At the Irish Performance Meet in Dublin, Ellen Walshe became the latest swimmer to achieve the OQT standard with her new national record in the women's 200m individual medley. Her selection is not yet certain though as the Swim Ireland selection policy stated that only swimmers who went within 1.5% of the OQT standard at the nationals in April would be eligible to qualify from this meet. However, it is most likely they won't stick strictly to that policy as Ellen went comfortably inside the FINA A time today. Either way she is eligible for a quota until Swim Ireland says otherwise so we will put her into the qualified basket for now. That means we now have broken the 100 mark (!!!) in terms of athlete quotas (54 men and 46 women) with representatives in 56 events, across 20 different sports. Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team IRELAND 100 athletes 54 men athletes 46 women athletes 56 events 20 sports NEW QUALIFIER: 2 TRIATHLON NAME QUALIFICATION Men's Individual WHITE Russell ITU Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking - Currently Ranked 64th and Occupying Quota Position in ITU Simulation Women's Individual HAYES Carolyn ITU World Triathlon Ranking - Currently Ranked 32nd and Occupying Quota Position in ITU Simulation 1 SWIMMING NAME QUALIFICATION Women's 200m Individual Medley WALSHE Ellen By OQT Entry Standard The full qualification tracker can be found here:

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: