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With Rory McIlroy planing to return to action next month, Darragh Culhane takes a look at one of the biggest decisions of the Northern Irish man’s career so far. Since it was announced golf would be at the Olympic games question number one was who would Rory McIlroy declare for? …
Two weeks ago Fintan O’ Toole wrote an article detailing his memories of watching Irish marathon runner Jim Hogan race in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. While Hogan eventually dropped to the ground a few miles short of the finish line, pleading for water, he nevertheless implanted himself into the mind of O’Toole …
Team Ireland won their first medals of the 2016 Olympic games as brothers Gary and Paul O’Donovan picked up silver in the men’s lightweight double sculls (aka the rowing, for the uneducated amongst you) on 12th August 2016. The Cork men finished second with a time of six minutes and thirty-one …
There were further organisational headaches today for the ‘Organising Committee for the Rio Olympics’ today after yet more problems were found with one of their sports facilities. Those problems came in the shape of a body, or at least, what was once the shape of a body, as a mutilated …
In light of the recently discovered widespread doping of Russian athletes, international organisations have taken and analysed blood samples taken from Russia’s 2012 Olympic Games participants. After intensive observation and testing, the FDA has confirmed that these individuals show all the hallmarks of one of sporting’s most potent performance-enhancing drugs; …