Those showjumpers sound so quietly, but reassuringly, confident!
Not so great if you are the horse
Great day for the equestrian
No best 3 anymore, it's all 3!
Separate competition again.
All going well horses will have to jump 4 times in 5 days.
I see its completely seperate and later in the week
Is the team event decided tomorrow as well? Whats the rules there? Best 3 combined?
Great stuff form the showjumpers. Three in the final gives us a sniff of a chance and bides well.for the team event also. Maybe Week 2 could surprise us yet.
7 clear of first 25. 73 entries.
O'Connor clear also, all 3 into tomorrow's final.
I'm not sure tbh but it is possible. The BBC definitely have an issue with live broadcasts but rte may have a different arrangement. Be crazy if they didn't have the final live at a minimum, can't imagine that happening. IOC shouldn't be selling off the games like this anyway, everything should be free to air. It's a travesty of its own charter imo.
It's only qualifying and scores aren't carried, just need a top 30.
I'd have expected them to show the whole event live, or at the very least to cut to the Irish jumpers.... be interesting to see if they cut to Cian O'Connor who's up soon - going by how the presenter phrased it, it doesn't sound like they will.
We're joint top of the leaderboard at the moment, if that was swimmers or runners they'd be cancelling the rest of the day!!
They have hardly completely ignored it, they just showed the 2 clears.
That might explain it alright - seemed bizarre for RTE to completely ignore an event with 3 competitors, in which we're expected to do well, for some random track events.
Not sure if there's a tv rights issue when it comes to the equestrian? Lot of chatter in Britain about the BBC not showing the eventing or dressage live but they didn't have the rights to do so, think Discovery own the broadcast rights. Hopefully that doesn't apply to the jumping, though.
No it's a clean slate, will be used for order of jumping though.
30 I believe.
Do times/faults from the qualifying carry forward to the final?
Showing Darragh now.
How many go through to final?
Bertrand Allen goes clear also.
You'd think RTE would show a sport where we have 3 contenders rather than the 110m hurdles semis 🙄
Not sure how qualifying works for all the different events but would they have an advantage over us by not being in Europe similar to how their soccer WC qualifying is pi$$ easy until the final round
Clear round for Darragh Kenny in the show jumping qualifying, comfortably into tomorrow's final.
True but that’s not to say they don’t target certain sports, Five of their six golds come from Rowing and Canoeing. There are plenty of articles on it. In fairness there large team size is partly explained by qualifying two teams in hockey, football and Rugby. far from downplaying their success I am in awe of it.
Please tell me she didn't jump up and down 😂
New Zealand are a huge outlier for a country of their population in fairness. Obviously there are things we can learn from them, but they have natural advantages too. If we were based in Oceania instead of them we'd have a much bigger team also because we'd have qualified teams in men's hockey, women's rugby and others.
Having rugby as their national sport instead of GAA gives them a two medal head start as well.
Having said all that, the potentially large gains we could be making if we want to are in water sports - rowing (which we're already doing to some extent), sailing and particularly canoeing/kayaking. As an island nation we're probably underperforming in the latter two in particular, we can definitely learn from NZ in that regard.
Anyway, great to see Kellie make her semi and guarantee medal number 4, even if it was as close to a foregone conclusion as we have had at this Olympics. She will have her hands full as the standard of opposition steps up from here (although I see the highly fancied Brit Dubois was beaten in her division). Hopefully she can make a final at least - she is keeping the Irish interest going in the second week as so many of our competitors have now finished up.
Four medals from four different competitors I would say makes this our third most successful Olympics after 1956 and 2012. If Kellie wins gold it might be considered to be even higher up the rankings than that.
Just watched Kellie Harrington's fight there..... when she was announced as the winner, straight over to her opponent to acknowledge her, then to the other corner to the trainers, before any celebration on her part. And what a lovely post- match interview. An absolute lady of a competitor.
New Zealand sent 211 athletes to Ireland's 116, and has already won medals in boxing, tennis, gymnastics, athletics and triathlon. No need to downplay their success.
I think we do both, participation is really important. Particularly those years when people quit sports like late teens, cos when you quit it's very hard to get back into it. But if you stay in sports, it just becomes routine. Then when your older again you can coach the younger generation.
I think a comprehensive talent spotting program could bear fruit.
Physical and Mental.
There's so much data and metrics collected that this could be straightforward.
Lots of sports like cycling, rowing etc can be picked up late enough.
