Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Team Ireland athletes competing in the Paris Olympics. Here’s what’s coming up in Paris today...
SWIMMING
Olympic 800m Freestyle Champion and 1500m Freestyle Bronze medallist Daniel Wiffen takes on the gruelling marathon swim in the Seine this morning.
Wiffen, who has never competed in an international open water race, makes another piece of Irish history as he becomes Ireland’s first ever competitor in Olympic marathon swimming.
GOLF
Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire will be hopeful of a significant change in fortunes when they take on round three of the individual singles at Le Golf National tomorrow; a course that has not been kind to the Irish pair at these Olympic Games.
ATHLETICS
Rhasidat Adeleke will be the first Irish woman to contest an Olympic 400m final at the Stade de France .
The 21-year-old from Tallaght takes to the track at 7pm Irish time aiming to be in the mix, but the task ahead will be far from straightforward, with a particularly high calibre field vying for podium places.
Amongst them are reigning world champion and Tokyo silver medallist Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic) who won the second semi-final last night by a distance. Also featuring are European champion and 2023 world silver medallist Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland), and world bronze medallist Sada Williams (Barbados).
The morning session features several Irish athletes, with two featuring in individual semi-finals. Sarah Lavin from Limerick looked strong in automatically advancing out of the heat. T
Despite a brilliant run in his heat Mark English also may need to significantly lower his national record to make a final in the 800m. Six of those he will be competing against have faster seasons best times than the Finn Valley AC man.
Meanwhile Kate O’Connor will be in action in the Heptathlon in both sessions. In the morning she competes in the Long Jump, where her best is 6.10m, and her strongest event the Javelin Throw where she has come close to breaking 53metres (52.92m), while her Olympic campaign concludes with the gruelling 800m finale event.
TRACK CYCLING
The Irish pairing of Alice Sharpe and Lara Gillespie will race against 14 teams in the always spectacular and highly entertaining Madison event.
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