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After narrowly missing out on Tokyo, spirits are high as the team head for Paris this week
World number two talks of pride in playing for Ireland, texts from Michael Jordan and the pain of missing out on Majors
Cyclists Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi want to ‘show the power of Afghan women to the world’ at the Paris Olympics
Ireland’s 24-year-old elite swimmer is now Paris-bound with the women’s 4x100m freestyle team
Me & My Money: Jordan Conroy, Olympian and Ireland Rugby Sevens player
In the Olympics, a stopwatch or a points tally will measure the distance between third and fourth, but that is a convenient lie: the distance between them is infinite
Popular Portaferry runner’s decisive kick for gold medal was utterly commanding as she ripped to the front to win the European Championship 1,500m in the Stadio Olimpico in June
Corkman Frederick Whitfield Barrett won gold and bronze in polo at the Olympics before training the winner in the Scottish Grand National, part of an epic life that encouraged others to append legends to his name
David Puttnam’s classic take on the 1924 Olympics in Paris still resonates with athletes of today
Behind the glory and the glamour, enormous pressure bears down on top athletes
Tipperary athlete will again put her hand up to anchor both relays in Paris, as well as running the individual 400m
Six more Irish athletes have qualified for these games than the number which travelled to Tokyo in 2021
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Concerns over quality of water in Paris river means rowing venue is on standby to host event
Reece Ademola also thrills the home crowd with victory in the long jump
Cian O’Connor will ride in his fourth Olympics, 12 years after winning bronze in London
Sophie Becker and Jodie McCann make quota for Paris Olympics; Thomas Barr misses out in the 400m hurdles but is set to travel as part of mixed relay squad
GAA celebrating athletics and Olympic history as part of Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final
It is unlikely that many Irish Olympians could lay claim to getting a mention in a Christy Moore song and being early proponents of the notion that you should ‘vote early, vote often’
Ciara McGing joins Jake Passmore on the diving team for Paris
Revelations about failed doping tests have raised questions about Chinese swimmers and Wada’s governance, while US officials have been accused of ‘politicising’ the controversy
The 28-year-old says it was ‘now or never’ to put his hand up for Olympic selection
Three weeks before heading to Paris for the Olympics, the Armagh swimmer is in no way distracted by the latest Chinese doping controversy
Luke McCann, Cathal Doyle, Kate O’Connor, Nicola Tuthill and Eric Favors make the quotas after the cut-off point
All six of the Paris qualifiers who competed came away with national titles, none more impressively than Rhasidat Adeleke
Three years after Biles withdrew from a number of events Tokyo, she has booked her ticket to Paris with a strong showing
Me and My Money: Daniel Wiffen, double World swimming champion and Irish Olympian
Mark English poised for his third Olympics in the 800m, and signs off with his ninth outdoor title
Tallaght AC sprinter wins Irish title in 11.13 seconds as she moves closer to 11-second mark
Planet Business: ‘Virtual burnout’, the AI music generators being sued by the industry and celebrities standing at the UK general election
It’s a ruthlessly simple system – if you don’t finish in the top three you don’t go through – but it leaves many of the best athletes thinking, why me?
Athlete went in a year from being barely known outside of Cork to preparing for the 2004 Athens Olympics as the fastest non-African in the world over 10,000m. It really was too good to be true
Ireland will field boxers in all female categories in the competition
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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