The cycling sisters defying the Taliban to compete in the Paris Olympics
Cyclists Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi want to ‘show the power of Afghan women to the world’ at the Paris Olympics
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
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
Irish star gives her Olympic medal hopes a real boost with statement victory on Friday night
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
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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
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
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Three years after Biles withdrew from a number of events Tokyo, she has booked her ticket to Paris with a strong showing
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Mark English poised for his third Olympics in the 800m, and signs off with his ninth outdoor title
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
The 21-year-old from Tallaght AC will race at home for the first time in two years
Organisers insist dry July weather will solve issues
Peadar Mogan’s journey from teenage encounter to playing for Jim McGuinness; Olympic hopes on the line at national championships
Offaly boxer Gráinne Walsh availed of visualisation technique to ensure she fulfilled a lifelong ambition to become an Olympian
Sunday is cut-off date for Paris Olympics, before World Athletics announce the final list on Tuesday
Just turned 19, he becomes only the third male Irish diver to reach the Olympic stage
Recent Irish success in the European Athletics Championships is inspiring athletes across the country
Two of the squad from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 remain
Men’s squad to face New Zealand, South Africa and Japan, women will take on Australia, Great Britain and South Africa in pool stages
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