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

Olympics Athletics on Wednesday:

06:30 - Marathon Mixed Relay Walk
09:05 - Men’s High Jump Quali
09:15 - Women’s 100m Hurdles R1
09:25 - Women’s Javelin Quali
10:10 - Men’s 5000m R1
10:55 - Men’s 800m R1
11:45 - Women’s 1500m Rep

17:15 - Women’s Pole Vault Final
18:05 - Men’s 110m Hurdles SFs
18:15 - Men’s Triple Jump Quali
18:35 - Men’s 400m Hurdles SFs
19:02 - Men’s 200m SFs
19:25 - Men’s Discus Final
19:45 - Women’s 400m SFs
20:20 - Men’s 400m Final
20:43 - Men’s 3000m Steep Final

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.

I’d be hopeful. She’s a terrific championship performer

But it's literally her job to jump hurdles. She gets rewarded for making a bollox of it. This is why i think it should be scrapped and go back to quickest loser time.

Fantastic, Lavin 2nd in her heat

Fair fcuks to Lavin!!!

Apparently not. First three qualify regardless of time.

Great race from Lavin, well done

Very easy to miss posts in what is a fast moving thread, so I appreciate this..

I took the weekend 'off' from boards, and missed about ~1,800 posts in this thread and whale oil beef hooked if I'm reading through them all…

So Sarah didn't need a national record to get out of the heats, but she might well need to match or even better it (12.62) to reach the final.

Just using rowing as an example because you mentioned it but is it actually possible to build on the success under the current structures.

Without pathways from schools most sports just seem inaccessible or insular. Limerick City has 3 rowing clubs right in the city centre that people pass every day and I don't think any kid ever passes and thinks "I might pop in and give it a go". As for athletics or hockey I wouldn't have a clue where my local club is. If you don't have family already involved these places are anonymous. And let's be honest some people in those clubs want it that way.

On the other hand my walk to town is plastered with posters for kids to sign up to Na Piarsaigh GAA, Ballynanty or Moyross soccer and Thomond rugby.

Sarah mightn't complain! 😅

I don’t think we have ever hosted a junior rowing championship going by wiki.

really I’d think it would be worth hosting a European senior rowing championship. The rowers kind of deserve the love at this stage. It should definitely be a conversation at national political level.