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Confirmed Irish Fighters times
Saturday 9th
8.30am (Irish time) KEn Egan v Julius Jackson (Virgin Isles)
Sunday 10th
7.30am John Joe Joyce v Gyula Kate (Hungary)
Tuesday 12th
2.15pm John Joe Nevin v Abdelhalim Ourradi (Algeria)
Barnes and Sutherland received byes. Their times TBC
UK boxer fails to make weigh
How disappointing would it be to prepare & fail before the Olympics even start.
He was a shoe in for a medal too.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
OK folks here's your irish competitors and their (Irish) times for the first day.
SATURDAY
10.30pm (Fri) - 1.55am Irish team and individuals (O'Connor, Curran, Ryan, Lyons, Griffin) 3 Day eventing Dressage
2.00-6.30 am Derek Burnett Shooting Men's Trap Qualifying
3.00am - Siobhan Byrne v Irena Weickowska (Poland) Fencing Women's Individual Sabre Round of 64
3.45 am - Scott Evans v Marc Zwiebler (GER) Badminton Men's Singles Round of 64
4.00-10.15am - Nicolas Roche, Philip Deignan Cycling Men's Road race
6.00am-12pm - Tim Goodbody Sailing Heavy Weight Dinghy-Finn Race 1 & 2
8.30am - Ken Egan v Julius jackson (US Virgin Isles) Boxing Light Heavy weight Round of 32
10.30-11am - Ireland (O'Neill, Devlin, Csey, Folan) Rowing Men's Four Heat
10.50am - Chloe Magee v Kati Tolmoff (EST) Badminton Women's Singles Round of 64
12.15-3.40pm - Irish team and individuals 3 Day eventing Dressage
1.45pm - Andrew Bree (Heat 5) Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke
Great Dodge, thanks. If following the Olympics was an Olympic event you'd win the gold medal. :)
Evans is playing at 3.45am. Won't be shown on RTÉ until 5am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Jesus cheers Dodge:)
is the cycling tomorrow a time trial or a race?
I've downloadednot one but two, proxy servers in an attempt to hide my IP address so I can somehow get to watch RTE.ie coverage of the Irish competitiors in action.
Nothing. P!ssing into the wind as usual.
Road race. No Irish in the time trialQuote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Maybe this should be in PreOlympic thread but here goes.
Sports Illustrated have predicted all the medal winners in the Olympics. Only Paddy Barnes picked from Ireland.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...804/index.html
Just goes to show the value of the draw. All 4 boxers picked in Ken Egan's weight are in the same half of the draw (meaning only 2 can medal). I honestly believe Egan will win SilverQuote:
Originally Posted by paudie
I don't know if this works but it is worth a try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torn-Ado
I expect it won't work but you never know.
http://cupidstunt.wordpress.com/2008...n-irish-proxy/
Austin O'Connor got joint 9th in the Dressage. I've no idea how it works so don't know if he's finished or what, just saw the standings.
Worst category everQuote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Have to agree, it's shockingly boring. I've moved on to badminton now:DQuote:
Originally Posted by deecay
No the dressage isn't over, it's really in the early stages and Austin O Connor and Geoff Curran are 14th and 20th respectively after 23 riders, but it is only the first part of the 3 day event so.....Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
At the moment Derek Burnett is involved in the trap qualificition in the shooting, but isn't on tele, and Siobhan Byrne is the next Irish competitor in action at 3am!!:p
Siobhan Byrne lost ion the first round of the Fencing. She was the 35th seed with only 3 South African's (token African reps) behind her.
Burnett got 24 out of 25 targets in the shooting. 5 shooters got 25. 12 others got 24
Our 3 day eventing team is 8th after 2 riders each (France isn't ranked as it only has one rider so far with one of their top horses failing the medical).
Individually, O'Connor is 15th and Curran 22nd of 25 riders so far. O'Connor is 13 points off 3rd place.
Burnett had a disappointing 22 in his 2nd round. He's in 21st place with 46. Equal 6th have 48
Scott Evans just lost a tight first set in the Badminton (21-18)
Oh and the Czech republic won the first gold medal (in shooting)
Evans just won 2nd set 21-18 (among much fist pumping and a great crowd reaction)
Also backed Kim Kirchin and Cadel Evans to wins mens cycling road race at 24 and 44 respectively with betfair
Evans lost a very tight 3rd set 21-19
Unlucky...
Cycling road race on Eurosport.
Group of around 20 are 3 minutes ahead with 90k to go. Spooted both Irish near the head of the chasing group a few minutes ago.
Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre in the leading group along with Jens Voight. They're the only 2 names I reconnise in the front group.
Kim Kirchen too. A couple of good pros like Gerrins and Bruzeghli.Quote:
Originally Posted by paudie
Egan just won his first round 22-2. Easy start for him
Cycling road race was won by Samuel Sanchez of Spain
Irish mens Heavyweight 4's came third in their heat and go straight to semi final, avoiding the repechage.
Chloe Magee in action now in a very good match. She has just levelled it 1 game all with her Estonian opponent. It's live now on BBCi.
Roche was 64th, Deignan 81st. Roche atacked the peleton at one stage but couldn't get away.Quote:
Originally Posted by paudie
Magee won the third and is through to last 32Quote:
Originally Posted by zenokelly
Good on her
When does she play again Dodge? Any word of who she plays, Augustyn or Jae-youn?
Japan is in mourning because one of the national darlings, Ryoko Tani, lost her semi-final in the 48kg Judo. She was going for her third gold in a row.
Egan won in the boxing and now faces a Turkish lad who didn't look anything special (bout straight after - I was a bit hungover this morning and not my usual sharp self so forgot the name!!!). Decent chance of a medal if he boxes as well as he did today.
Andrew Bree came second in his heat just there. Well done.
Fair play to the rowers too, they finished 3rd(out of 4, top 3 go through). A couple of seconds behind the winners Australia. They're through to the semi's on Wednesday now.
Was extremely unlucky. Great effort to come back in the second set and pull ahead in the third. In the end nerves got to him when 18-15 up in the decider. Fair play to Zwiebler though for keeping his cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
He deserved to go through I felt, although obviously a bit biased. A couple of unforced errors cost him the first set. If he can cut them out he'll shoot up the rankings.
Reaction.
Fantastic victory, major scalp. Well done Chloe.Quote:
Originally Posted by harpskid
Playing Jae-young next- world no.12. It will be on early Sunday morning Chineese time, so middle of the night over here.
Broke the irish record. he has 2 more events left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torn-Ado
Just the one, his main one, 200m breast stoke. He'd be hoping for a semi final place hereQuote:
Originally Posted by paudie
I'll have the Sunday diary up soon :)
RTE were saying that he was also competing in the 200imedley?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Great win for Magee in the badminton, Evans was awful unlucky. I felt that Evans was more worthwhile for the win, as the Estonian playing Magee in fairness did make an awful lot of silly mistakes.
The eventers did ok apart from our best hope Geoff Curran. His complaint was that the big screen showing his test was too low, thus his horse was concentrating on watching himself on the screen:ball: Geoff looked very dissatisfied with the outcome, and is now lying 38th of the 44 who competed today. Austin O' Connor and Louise Lyons, lying in 26th and 35th place respectively, seemed pretty content with their tests. The team are lying 2nd last at the moment.
Good to see the men's 4 qualify, but it will be a big ask for them to qualify for the final.
Derek Burnett will be disappointed to be only ranked 15th at this stage, and being 3 shots off the final qualifying place, it will be a miracle if he qualified for the final but who knows.
Yeah, so he is. Didn't realise he had qualified for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by zenokelly
Egan won comfortably today. Joyce has a tough one but if he gets past the Hungarian he could go all the way, but that is a big ask
I think the rowers did excellent today
What did ye guys make of the opening ceremony? i thought it was a bit boirng but then thats not really my cup of tea. The Fireworks over the city to the stadium were cool though
Is the horse's name Christiano Ronaldo?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by zenokelly