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KATE O CONNOR MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST IRISH OLYMPIC HEPTATHLETE

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Team Ireland’s Kate O’Connor made history today becoming Ireland’s first ever heptathlete to compete at an Olympic Games. The Newry native competed in two of the seven events this morning; 100m hurdles and High Jump to sit on 1908 points (19th overall) ahead of the next two events this evening. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow are back

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DAY 11 MORNING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND

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Team Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam with James Kann Cruz, and Daniel Coyle with Legacy, both missed out on the medal jump-off in the show jumping final at the Palace of Versailles this morning. Running a brilliant PB Sophie O’Sullivan narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 1500m semi-finals by just one spot, finishing 7th in her heat,

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ATHLETE CIARA MAGEEAN FORCED TO WITHDRAW FROM PARIS 2024 DUE TO INJURY

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Team Ireland’s Ciara Mageean has withdrawn from tomorrow’s 1500m heats due to injury. In her final weeks of preparation for these Paris Olympic Games Ciara has been dealing with painful chronic Achilles issues. Despite every effort made by Ciara and the Team Ireland medical team, the European champion will unfortunately be unable to toe the

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Daniel Wiffen wins bronze in the Men’s 1500m Freestyle at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

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Team Ireland’s swimming superstar Daniel Wiffen has won an Olympic bronze medal in the 1500m Freestyle final this evening, to add to the gold he won on Tuesday. In doing so the Armagh swimmer has won Team Ireland’s seventh medal at these Olympic Games, and it is Ireland’s third bronze medal in Paris. This is

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Day 8 – Team Ireland Paris 2024

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Team Ireland’s Gymnastics superstar Rhys McClenaghan has won an Olympic gold medal in the Pommel Horse final this evening, with a magnificent score of 15.533, becoming the first Irish gymnast to ever win an Olympic medal.   Cyclist Ben Healy secured Ireland’s best ever result in an Olympic road race with a brilliant 10th place finish this afternoon. Team

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BACK-TO-BACK OLYMPIC GOLD FOR FINTAN MCCARTHY AND PAUL O’DONOVAN

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Team Ireland rowers Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan (LM2x) have sensationally won back-to -back Olympic gold medals. The Skibbereen superstars rowed the perfect race to become double Olympic champions in front a massive Irish crowd in Paris. In doing the remarkable duo have won Team Ireland’s fifth medal at these Paris Olympic Games, after team

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2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY6 EVENING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND

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Twenty-one-year-old Sallynoggin heavyweight (92kg) Jack Marley, who made such an impressive Olympic debut last Sunday was beaten tonight by Davlat Boltaev of Tajikistan in the 92kg quarter-finals; 4-1. Earlier talented Bray flyweight Daina Moorehouse was bitterly disappointed to be on the wrong side of a 4-1 decision in favour of hometown fighter Wassila Lkhadiri of

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TEAM IRELAND SWIMMER DANIEL WIFFEN WINS OLYMPIC GOLD

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Armagh swimmer Daniel Wiffen has won an incredible Olympic gold medal in the final of the men’s 800m freestyle at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, in a new Olympic Record time of 7:38.19. In doing so twenty-three-year old Wiffen becomes Team Ireland’s second medallist at these Olympic Games, after team mate Mona McSharry claimed

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DAY 4 | AFTERNOON REPORT PARIS 2024

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At the canoe slalom Michaela Corcoran in the women’s C1 placed 21st overall and did not advance to  the semi-finals, while Kildare paddler Noel Hendrick did enough over the course of his two runs in the K1 to advance to Thursday’s semi-final, ranked 19th. The Irish women’s rugby sevens team concluded their first ever Olympic Games with an eighth place finish

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