Olympic Games Paris 2024 - AH Thread [Thread banned posters listed in first post.]

They definitely weren’t clear to the eye. Like I said, I had Kellie winning 2-1 but it wasn’t all Rosie. It was a great fight I think and she didn’t have her way completely.

The only gold medal so far that I felt emotionless about. I know I’m probably in the complete minority but not a huge Kellie fan. She reminds me of Bill Cullen constantly banging on about her background story of where she came from etc.

Fair play to her all the same , some achievement. She’s dead right to retire.

Does anyone know what age Zaur Antia is?

The lads in the studio said he won't be around forever.

Her second interview was much better

4 gold medals, 2 of which were successfully defended from Tokyo, medals in rowing, swimming gymnastics and boxing, what a fcuking week for Ireland. Onwards and hopefully upwards!

As was said:

Her second interview was much better

You'd feel, that interviewers were instructed not to "mention the war" and that Kellie was very wary of having it even tangentially mentioned, or even having to go there in her replies.

Which is fair enough, but mentioning she went to a dark place, and not explicitly saying why, ...it kinda leaves the internet bullies off for what they've done

Watching it, the first could have gone either way. The the third could have gone either way, I think the second was Harringtons, but that won't win her the fight....

you cant ask boxers who have just lost to fight again. They are much more likely to be injured. It’s idiotic. Funnily enough Conlans lads had to pull out after that robbery of a judging performance.

OTB trying to play up Kellie's victory now. So slimy. Delighted she got the gold and silenced the begrudgers.

oh would you cop on. You’d be giving out if they didn’t post anything about her.

they get 30000 euro funding if they are the elite of the elite. It’s not major funding. It’s it’ll have to do funding.

But the athletes don’t complain, in fairness. I’ve never heard anyone complain about the funding they got even after they retired and could say what they want. Although our esteemed journalist class never asked the likes of Sonia or Dervla o’rourke about it either after retirement.

The funding issue is more about infrastructure and facilities. Which aren’t normally at an international standard level in Ireland. A velodrome should have been built years ago but that is only one example. Generally if our athletes had to depend on facilities in Ireland they would be poorly prepared. It’s kind of like our defence budget. We depend on other countries to train our athletes/defend our sovereignty. But it’s a lot cheaper to fix sports facilities than upgrade militarily.

Despite our great rowers, we’ve never discussed hosting any European championships so we can build on their success and create a culture of young rowers for the future.

Ireland is a sporting backwater, although our people love sport and invest in it by attending events and buying raffle tickets etc., this is not matched by public investment. Governments look at sport as a source of income (through tax revenues like VAT) not something to invest in.

no doubt someone will be along to say that that’s because all the money goes to the GAA but that’s total bollocks to be honest.