Road to Tokyo 2020 - Irish Olympic News

McIlroy has been frustrating...but how many chances did Matsuyama miss to get bronze or silver, unbelievable.

So it is somehow a 7 way playoff.

Get in the hole! Great putt from Rory.

And then there were still 5

Great drive from Rory

I had to get a bit of sleep after 24hrs awake and woke to this 15 mins ago. And this for bronze.

Unreal shots there

How did that not drop?

Rory miss

And now 2

Hung in there well in the playoff, but one medal from seven players in the playoff was always a long shot. He will be very frustrated at the chances he missed in regulation play.

Between that and Kurt Walker missing a medal by one point on one judges scorecard it really hasn't been our morning. All on McClenaghan now...please don't fall off the pommel horse Rhys.

Pars not enough to get the job done in such a big play off.

I find if you are getting a lot of bad luck there is normally something else going on. We always seem to be "unlucky"and I am not sure how much better other routes would have been for our fighters.

The silver and bronze medallists in the golf both came from way back, 21 players teed off after them.

The boxing draws were a mixed bag, Aidan Walsh got a great one, being honest that's the main reason he got a medal. Harrington's draw is potentially ok as far as the semis also.

Michaela Walsh, Aoife O'Rourke and especially Kurt Walker got very tough draws, that's just the way it goes unfortunately.

At least the scoring has felt fair in the boxing this time after the absolute shambles in Rio. Some close bouts that could have gone either way but I don't feel that any of our losing boxers were robbed this time around.

This is going to be hard to watch - one slip and it's over...

Not our day.

Congratulations on winning gold in the 'Muppet Troll of the Day' event.

Great interview Rhys, resilient and determined. Look forward to watching him in Paris.

Definitely not. I think the issue is most of us, myself included, don't keep track of a lot of these sports in between olympic years. So we sort of end up with conflicting views of on one hand these did not do as well as we expected but on the other hand we are also just finding out how well people like Rhys have done over the last number of years to be in a place where a medal is expected.

Even on the rowing which has been our most successful they mentioned they had strong hopes of 4 medals with thoughts of 4 potential golds.

Max Whitlock was older than Rhys currently is when he won both gold medals, so he has tons of time - Paris will be Rhys's big chance to grab a gold medal.