CYCLING MASSIVE crowds flocked to cycling’s World Road Championships in Bergen in September where the huge attendances and support saw it favourably compared to when Norway hosted the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994. Best of the Irish over some demanding courses were Olympian Nicholas Roche and Mark Downey. Roche’s 12th in the 31km […]
Congratulations to 17 Year Old Irish Gymnast Rhys McClenaghan who claimed gold in the Pommel Horse Final at the World Challenge Cup in Croatia 20th May 2017. The young gymnast fought off seven competitors in the final this evening with a score of 14.267. With his eyes firmly set on Tokyo 2020 qualification this result demonstrates
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Day for Ireland at the Rio 2016 Olympics was about Olympic debuts and a first look at our boxers. Weather played its part in disrupting the schedule, but there were still plenty of memorable moments for #TeamIreland Boxing: Steven Donnelly was delighted to come away with the win in his first Olympic fight #rterio2016 https://t.co/z8gOExe41u
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A look back on Day One for Team Ireland at Rio 2016
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Rio 2016 Team Ireland Live Blog: Day 1
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Pictures and Profiles of all 77 athletes competing for Ireland at the Olympic Games Rio 2016
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Ellis O’Reilly, the first ever Irish female gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games, and her teammate Kieran Behan work to achieve their qualification dream by using #ThePowerWithin #IRL2016 #GoTeamIRL
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History was made last night at the Barra Olympic Arena 18 year old Irish gymnast, Ellis O’ Reilly, captured a place at the 2016 Rio Olympics Games through her performance at the Aquecce Rio Test Event, the final qualifying event for the Rio Olympic 2016. She becomes the first Irish female gymnast to qualify for
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Ireland’s top gymnasts showed encouraging form ahead of the World Championships with an unprecedented haul of 11 medals at the Northern European Championships, held at the University of Limerick over the weekend. Their impressive tally included men’s team gold and women’s team silver, their best ever collective results at this level, and Olympian Kieran Behan led
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Team Ireland returned home from the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia to a great reception in Dublin Airport yesterday. Athletics (5) and Swimming (5) won 10 medals and there were excellent performances from all of our athletes in Athletics, Cycling, Gymnastics, Judo and Swimming. It was the most successful team ever at this level
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Congratulations to Kieran Behan who finished just outside the medals in the floor exercise final at the European Games. The Irish gymnast, who overcame a serious leg disability as a youngster, was first onto the mat in the six-man final, and although his score of 14.866 appeared perfectly executed, it just wasn’t enough to get him
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Kieran Behan 17th in the Men’s individual all round event, showing significant progression within the high performance gymnastic programme. Behan will be in action again in the individual floor final on Saturday 20th June. All round results here: http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/men-all-around/phase=gam024100/index.html?intcmp=sr-bysport-byday-schline-eventdetail
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