Rio de Janeiro 2016
Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics following a tense and dramatic night for Irish boxing in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) in Maiquetía, Venezuela in the early hours of this morning. Barnes beat Finol Rivas on a split decision (49-45,49-45, 47-48) in the light-fly class in to book his […]
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Single sculler Sanita Puspure is a London Olympian and Olympic Council of Ireland Rio 2016 Scholarship athlete . She created Irish rowing history last year by achieving fourth place at the World Championships in Amsterdam. As well as being a world class rower she is a wife and mother of two children making an impact in major championships
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Ireland’s Liam Jegou claimed the silver medal in the C1 class at the International Canoe Federation Slalom Junior World Championships in Penrith, Australia in 2014 and is one of the selected Olympic Council of Ireland Olympic Scholarship athletes.Liam will be attempting to follow the path led by triple Olympian Eoin Rheinisch and make his mark
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In a series of articles in the build up to qualification for Rio 2016 we asked our Olympic Council of Ireland scholarship athletes to provide updates for our website on how they are progressing. Chloe Magee is now one of the world’s top 25 Badminton players and with her brother Sam has a double target for
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In 500 days Rio de Janeiro will host the 31st Olympiad. http://www.rio2016.com/en/the-games/olympic
The Rio 2016 Organising Committee has announced the details of 44 test events that will be held in preparation for next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The programme includes 34 Olympic sports events, six Paralympic events and four events that feature both Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. The events will provide the Organising Committee with an
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Leading footwear and apparel representatives from New Balance were back in Ireland over the past few days meeting the OCI, a number of National Federations, and OCI Athletes Commission representatives. New Balance provided presentations on the updated designs of technical clothing for performance, training and recovery, village and ceremony clothing and footwear for Rio 2016 following their previous consultation
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The International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission are in Rio for the 8th visit to the 2016 host city of Rio de Janeiro. President Thomas Bach led the delegation during this visit. Our President, Pat Hickey was also present as Member of the IOC Rio Coordination Commission. 21 test events are planned for this year with
The new venue for the Road Time Trial will be in Pontal, located in the west Rio. The temporary venue will host the men’s and women’s time trial races, in which riders leave the starting line individually, every 90 seconds, with the cyclist who completes the course in the fastest time winning the gold medal. The
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The canoe slalom venue for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be “absolutely wonderful” according to the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The Whitewater Stadium course in Deodoro is one of the most complex new builds in the Rio 2016 project, but the International Federation praised the progress being made and said work was “on schedule”. Jean
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Ireland’s Bryan Keane is in action again this weekend as he continues his tour of the Caribbean, moving from last weekend’s race site in Cuba to the Puerto Rico Continental Cup this Sunday. While this sounds glamorous it’s far from it as the long hours of training combined with long haul flights to make for a
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The Irish men’s team are currently in South Africa preparing for the first of their Olympic qualifiers and are ranked 15th in the world. The South African men, who are ranked two places above Ireland at 13, have in the first two matches drawn and lost 5-4 to Ireland. The first Olympic hurdle for Ireland men begins on
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