The AH Tokyo 2020 Olympics/Paralympics Thread in 2021

Cheer up appledrop, Ireland just won bronze in the Women's Fours rowing final, or maybe for you that's 4th last in the final!

Brilliant row from the girls. Timed it to perfection.

Derek Burnett competing in his fifth Olympics!

starting now but no tv coverage, anyone know a good way to follow this? Perhaps someone is live tweeting?

Silver for Charlie Haughey’s grandniece. Great performance.

The men's lightweight doubles look nailed on for a medal now as well. And Puspure will have a reasonable chance in the single sculls. So the four girls might have some competition for the coveted Late Late spot - especially if the men win gold. or maybe he'll have to do an Olympic special and fit them all in!

Hope appledrop is OK, nothing for him/her to complain about from the comfort of his couch for a few hours after that medal.

Fantastic stuff : looks like this boxing team has medals in them

How long are RTÉ going to spend on this boring time trial?

I'm no rowing expert, but is that event known as the cockless four?

Great to wake up to a medal!

Dezzie obviously ‘gooted ’ there will be no ‘partiee’ and that each discipline will go home separately .

No big homecoming gig for himself and NK.

couldn’t get much of a ‘rise’ from the families of the rowers either.

All too tired and Dezzie ready to ‘paartie’.

I remember the days of it being all on Sonia and praying maybe a boxer might come through

Now we least have some very good medal prospects and we are far more competitive in a range of sports. May it long continue.

Before we were praying to win a medal now we expect at least 2 or 3 medals and thats great. Hopefully we have 2 or 3 medals secured by weekend.

I would say just boxing in fairness for most of the time. The big dent in out medals is the 60s to 80s when we won nothing till Treacy came along. I don't know much about Irish Olympics back then but I assume it was a case of "eat your spuds and give it a lash" stuff with no money behind it whereas many other countries were "amateur"

There has been a huge improvement in recent years but even if we let's say build a velodrome finally we still wouldn't be able to afford someone like Shane Sutton (not that we would want him given is personal reputation)

Just to give an idea what we are up against GB cycling just got awarded £35 million just to prep for the Paris Olympics

From my limited experience of New Zealand rowing is big there.

So is sailing.

We would much more into soccer than the kiwis.

Of course they also have cricket being the good little colony they were.

Also remember we have football, hurling and camogie as major sports.

Imagine if the hurlers and camogie players played hockey how good our hockey team would be.

Come on Aoife O' Rourke!