Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

Yes, but only if the Argentinian that beat him makes the final. He's the 11th seed so he probably won't, which would mean Woolley's Olympics would be over.

A bit of a lull now in terms of Irish competitors after a busy early morning. McCarthy and O'Donovan were predictably impressive, but the highlight for me was definitely the Women's Four, they were excellent and will go close to a medal. McClenaghan in good shape to challenge for a medal also. Biggest disappointment was probably Byrne and Doyle, they made the semis but looked well off the pace needed to even challenge for a medal.

The road race will continue for another few hours with the three Irish lads well positioned in the peloton and then there's swimming and hockey later on.

The Argentinian has made the semi final!

No joy for the Argentinian in the semi final of the Taekwondo so that's the end of Jack Woolley's games, the first Irish competitor to finish up. Will be followed in the next half an hour or so by Martin and Dunbar, who have been dropped in the road race.

Ireland 1 South Africa 0 at half time in the hockey

Should be further ahead, a second goal would turn the screw

There's a general thread in the After Hours forum. I'm sure there will be something in the athletics forum specifically for track and field once that starts next weekend.

Not sure if this thread title should be renamed as we are no longer on the road to Tokyo, but it has always really just been for Irish competitors either way.

No wind = no hope for Annalise. Always needs strong winds to have a chance because of her size compared to her rivals.

I'm really glad she got the silver last time out because the winds aren't always going to fall in her favour at the Olympics so it's great that she got the medal when the conditions fell her way.

One bad race here is not a disaster by any means but if the winds don't pick up she'll end up a long way back in the field unfortunately.

Byrne and Doyle continued their poor form today, last in their semi final and more than 10 seconds behind the next worst team across the two semi finals. They will almost certainly finish last in the B final as well, their body language is of a team that have given up. Hard to know where it has gone wrong for them, maybe it will come out in time but something clearly not right.

Sanita Puspure with a good win in her single sculls QF, beating one of her medal rivals from the US. However the Russian in another QF was absolutely miles ahead of everyone else in terms of time, almost unbelievably so.

Sanita will have a battle on her hands for silver or bronze, her hopes probably depend on how much she was holding in reserve today (it didn't look like she held too much back).

This could well be an event where silver becomes gold and fourth becomes bronze down the line being honest so still plenty of hope for her going into the semis.

Jegou missed a gate in the first slalom run so he will have it all to do in his second run.

Good swim from Mona McSharry to finish 3rd in her heat behind a SA swimmer who beat the OR in first

33-14 loss. comfortable win in end for South Africa but Ireland good in parts

To get to olympic final is some achievement. She have produce a PB to medal but who knows.

Irelands biggest achievement in this olympics is likely to be on the coaching side of boxing.

RTE are a joke. Their coverage in the last olympics was the same.

To be fair most performances have been in line with ranking so far. The only big medal hope out so far would be Byrne/Doyle in rowing, they massively underperformed.

Other than that our three other rowing chances are all doing well, McClenaghan has made the final in the pommel and Kelly Harrington hasn't started yet in boxing. Those along with Aidan Walsh (hasn't started yet) and Byrne/Doyle were likely to be our best hopes. Mona McSharry is very unlikely to win a medal but has performed above expectations to make her final.

Still a good chance of four or five medals as things stand, which would make it one of our best performances ever at the Olympics. The focus in Ireland on GAA, soccer and 15s rugby will always limit our success levels at the Olympics unfortunately.