Our writers reveal what’s exciting and exercising them in advance of Paris 2024, including Ireland’s medal hopes, off-field scandals and US basketball stars Samples of the medals that will be handed out to winners at the Olympic Games in Paris. How ...
The winners of Pool A will meet the eighth-placed qualifier, the lower ranked of the two best third-placed pool finishers, while the runners-up will face Sevens powerhouse Fiji, who have never lost a Sevens match on their way to back-to-back men’s Olympic titles. Fiji saw off France ...
Luca & Matthew came 6th overall and just missed out on a medal being the 2nd U26 pair and medals being given to the top pair of each age category. Directly after was the World Youth Teams Championship in the same venue. Our U21 team got a late invite and the following were the ...
There was a 5000-meter world championship, an Olympic Marathon silver medal, regular mile victories on the international circuit, and a world record in the 4 x 1-mile relay. As happened with many European countries once East African runners began dominating distance running, there’s been a ...
He was the first athlete from Ireland to win an Olympic medal under the Irish flag rather than the British. In sport he then became regarded as one of Ireland's greatest-ever athletes. Age: Dec. at 86 (1905-1991) Birthplace: Kanturk, Republic of Ireland Patrick Browne Patrick Browne (...
Take a Look at These Irish Men Mary, They Are Our Gold Medal Winners and Champions of CourageIRELAND'S heroic Paralympic team proved Mary Ellen Synon wrong yesterday when they won two gold medals at the Sydney Games.Beattie, Jilly
Gymnast Rhys McClenaghan of Team Ireland with his Olympic gold medal at Champions Park in Paris. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images The decision to shorten the name to “Team GB” has long irritated unionists, with theDUP’sGregory Campbelldeclaring in 2009, when he wa...
Summer McIntosh, the 17-year-old Canadian phenom, won her first Olympic gold medal in the grueling women’s 400-meter individual medley. See more Olympics results here:https://t.co/Fsqi7kIQx5pic.twitter.com/p8oGPCDqof — The New York Times (@nytimes)July 29, ...
Up next for Zheng, who arrived in New York having played just two hard court matches since winning the Olympic singles gold medal on the Parisian clay at Roland Garros, will be a clash with Russia’s Erika Andreeva. At Arthur Ashe Stadium, defending cham...
It is certainly no precedent for there to be more Irish female medal winners than male – it was also the case in Rio 2016 and Tokyo last time out – but this will be the first time since the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 that no Irish men medalled. ...