Olympics 2024
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Most will. Some have difficulty with the flag and anthem. It's a grey area for athletes partaking in sports which for historical reasons are organised on an all Ireland basis
ETA the Belfast Newsletter, the biggest Unionist paper, has used the form of words 'won gold *for* Northern Ireland' so that kinda sums it up.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Well done team Dandy. Through to the quarter finals, Andy gets another match.
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4 x 200 m relay swimmers were very impressive retaining their title.
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Thanks, as always, for your Northern Ireland insight. Maybe that paper will need to tweak the medal table to include Northern Ireland
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Channels 521 and 522 as usual, 4k on 523, then 563 to 569 for Eurosport 3 to 9.
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A second NI swimmer...
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Not that we're parochial or anything. But there's a live argument on twitter as to whether Magheralin, his home town, is in County Down or County Armagh.
The PE department of his former school has scooped 7 All-Ireland football medals and 1 Olympic Gold in 72 hours.
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Slick cobbles and Seine sewage water: who’d be a triathlete?
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Good win by the Parisienne.
Sounds like the swim was very tough with the currents
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Surprised it went ahead. We had thunderstorms at about 7.30am. They haven’t had much luck weather wise for events involving road cycling. Hope it’s better for the weekend.
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Not convinced running it in Paris centre is sensible tbh. Not even London had the TT anywhere near the centre, and in the Tri they resurfaced the roads so they were grippy in the wet too.
Only place they didn't do much was Richmond Park and we all remember what happened there.
That was an off-camber right hander - the hill horizon on that corner gives the illusion the camber is flat.
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Happen to be in Paris for work and the place I am working is about 2 miles from Stade de France - made a last minute decision to go to the women's rugby sevens yesterday and it was absolutely brilliant!!
Arrived just around 17.30 so saw the end of Japan Brazil, then GB-IRE (7th place), China-France (5th place), USA-Aus (bronze) and the final NZ-Canada, then stayed for the medals.
I did not fancy the RER in the heat with the crowd so rented a Lime bike via the Uber app and cycled back to my hotel (near Gare de Lyon) - cycling infrastructure has really come on a long way since I was last in Paris (2019). There's special temporary bike parks for the various bike rental services close to the venues as well.
Only downside is you can only pay by card in the venue with Visa and apparently Natwest have changed my debit card to something called Mastercard Debit (was news to me), there were only 2 ATMs in the venue (which I couldn't find for ages as theyre on opposite sides) and hardly any of the bar points took cash anyway. At one point I was getting slightly concerned that I'd expire, as I went straight from the office in work gear and it was incredibly hot.
I didn't go to see aanything in London 2012 so I'm really happy I got to see something!
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Yeah when I left my hotel around 7.30 and it was raining heavily I assumed that would be it for the triathlon due to the water quality.
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First time in any swimming relay at the OGs that the same 4 have retained their title.
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Well that was a great run by Yee/ dramatic collapse by Wilde.
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Alex Yee. Wow. Had written him off for winning this. Surged past Wilde in the last hundred meters or so.
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Fantastic final 450m from Alex Yee. He was dead and buried, looking likely to drop to third with about 1 km to go.
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Have had my French work training group watching the triathlon 😆
Long period where it looked like Yee would get caught by the Frenchies but he paced that run absolutely to perfection.
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I am assuming he had paced it and he knew Wilde had gone too hard
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It is seriously warm and humid again now so I don’t envy any endurance athletes. I’m having to take a rest every 10-15 minutes just strolling around and I’m not that unfit. It’s horrible, not helped by the complete lack of air con anywhere.
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Weird - you wait 52 years for an NI gold medal and then get two in a session. Jack McMillan got a gold for swimming the heats in the 4*2 relay.
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Ffs the rowers doing it at the last second too!
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Ridiculous finish in the rowing as well!
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Very exciting womens quad finish. Photo finish, Brits came through right in the final 100m.
It is very hard to do it the way they did it! Edit: their first km was almost exactly the same as their 2nd -so relatively well paced ;) (not forgetting the first 1km is a standing start...) as I keep saying!
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I booked a hotel with AC specifically... Easier when work pays though. The supermarkets mainly have AC I found but going in and out almost makes it worse as it hits you again...
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I’m staying at Center Paris. The apartment has a single fan, the restaurant last night had completely ineffective air con and walking around Disney today. In Florida all the inside areas are like fridges and give some respite but here again it is hardly noticeable. I’d intended doing a run yesterday but knocked it on the head. Really can’t imagine an all out aerobic effort.
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If we had hydrofoils on our blokes boat we would have won that.
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