Rio Recap: Team Ireland’s Day 6/16
Live Blog, Results and Imagery of Day 6 from Rio 2016 for Team Ireland
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Rio 2016 – Team Ireland Profile
Pictures and Profiles of all 77 athletes competing for Ireland at the Olympic Games Rio 2016
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Double’s Bronze Medals for Magee’s
The Magee family will look forward to two medal ceremonies over the weekend. Sam Magee and sister Chloe lost their semi final today against the French pair Fontaine and Mittel 21-12, 23-21, but still earned a European Bronze Medal in the mixed doubles. Their medal ceremony will take place on Sunday afternoon. Sam and brother
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Magee’s Through But Evans Exits
Chloe and Sam Magee are through to the semi-finals of the mixed doubles after beating Polish pair Aneta Wojtkow and Pawel Pietryja. In a match that lasted 34 minutes, the Donegal brother and sister duo beat the Poles 21-18, 21-12. 26-year-old Chloe and 25-year-old Sam will face France’s Gaetan Mittelheisser and Audrey Fontaine in the
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Sam and Josh Magee into semi-final
Congratulations to Sam and Joshua Magee who created history by securing at least a bronze medal in the first ever European Games. The Irish pair beat Mayijs Dierickx and Freek Golinski of Belgium in the quarterfinals. They now face the current European champions Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov. On the other side of the draw
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Evans and Magee’s in Medal Playoffs
Congratulations to Sam Magee and Chloe Magee who have booked a place in the quarterfinals today after beating Samuel Cali and Sadowski Fiorella Marie of Malta. The Magees took out their opponents with a comfortable two game victory. Scott Evans also progressed to the quarterfinals of the men’s singles after a classy two game victory
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Positive Day for Badminton
Scott Evans continued his unbeaten start in the men’s badminton singles last night , although not as easily as his first match. He lost the first set to Yuhan Tan from Belgium, 14-21, but then promptly avenged that in the second, 21-13, before winning the third set 21-13, too. The sister and brother pair of
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Team Ireland in Action Today
Schedule for Team Ireland: Tuesday 23 June 3×3 Basketball 19:30 Women’s Pool C Ireland vs Slovenia Badminton MAGEE Chloe 09:40 Women’s Singles Group Play Stage Group F Chloe Magee vs Kristine Sefere (LAT) MAGEE Chloe and MAGEE Sam 13:40 Mixed Doubles Group Play Stage A
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Chloe Magee loses First Pool Match
Donegal badminton player Chloe Magee has lost her opening singles match in her group against Estonia’s Kati Tolmoff 21-18, 21-17. http://www.baku2015.com/badminton/event/women-singles/index.html Magee and her brother Sam will be involved in a mixed doubles game on this evening. Sam Magee and brother Josh Magee were also beaten in a tough men’s doubles game today by Danish
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Baku 2015 Badminton Draw
Badminton Europe (BEC), the governing body of the sport in Europe, today held the draw for the Baku 2015 competition The competition will take place at the Baku Sports Hall from 22-28 June. Mr Brian Agerbak, General Secretary of Badminton Europe, said: “For Badminton Europe it has been a great experience to take part in the
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Evans looking forward to Baku 2015
Ireland’s Scott Evans is in confident mood ahead of the Baku 2015 European Games and will be pushing for a place on the podium. Evans has competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, losing to eventual winner Lin Dan of China in the first round in London. He is currently 27th in the world, and playing
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Evans breaks into Top 25
After a very successful year winning the Brazil Grand Prix and reaching the finals of the Bitburger Open Grand Prix gold event in Germany combined with his best result to date, reaching the last 16 on a world premier super series event at this year’s All England Open Championships Scott Evans has broken into the
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