Let’s do this.
The opening ceremony was fun, we’ve had our first doping controversy and it’s now time for the sport to start.
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It’s a family affair first up as Ireland get their Olympic Games up and running at 1.30pm. Cousins Dan Martin and Nico Roche will both he hopeful of being in them medals shake-up in the men’s road race. We’ll keep you updated throughout.
And they’re off in Rio for the men’s road race!
UCI chief Brian Cookson drops the flag on the start line.
The entire race will be screened in entirety on RTE News Now if you want to keep tabs on the action.
Sanita Puspure is about to get her second Olympic Games underway.
The Latvian-born Cork rower will go in Heat 3 of the women’s single sculls within the next 10 minutes.
So, that’s not a bad start. In rough conditions, the Cork-based rower looked comfortable in claiming a second-place finish with a time of 9:11.45.
Puspure, beaten by Canadian Carling Zeeman to first, will now prepare for a quarter-final on Tuesday.
Impressive stuff as Pádraig McCarthy on Simon Porloe scores 46.80 in the dressage.
Our history boys will get their campaign up and running at 3pm. RTÉ are going to show the historic meeting against India and we’ll have updates throughout, of course.
Ireland are up against it in their Olympics curtain-raiser. India’s pressure ultimately told and they converted a penalty corner right at the end of the first quarter.
Ireland were doing a lot better in the second quarter but India have again scored from a penalty quarter.
The wonderfully-named shooter Virginia Thrasher has claimed the first gold of the Games. The 19-year-old won the women’s 10m air rifle event.
The break could not come quick enough for the Irish in the end despite some great play in patches.
Sean McGoldrick in the Indo and now RTÉ are reporting that Michael O’Reilly has lodged a formal appeal. It may take a few days for it to be heard however.
That’s huge! Right at the end of the third quarter, Ireland make it 2-1. Corkman John Jermyn with the historic strike.
There’s 125km to go in the men’s road race with a breakaway of six riders less than five minutes or so ahead of the peloton. A long way to go and you’d expect that group to be reeled in.
Five minutes or so to go and we’re back in this.
It wasn’t pretty but Conor Harte made sure of it.
Great effort in the end but Ireland lose their Olympic opener. It’s the Dutch next up tomorrow.
Over at the Olympic Equestrian Centre, Clare Abbott is about to go with Euro Prince in the dressage.
Ireland’s Dan Martin is in good position in the men’s road race with just 70km to go. He’s just in front of the main bunch as the riders prepare to tackle a tough climb.
Here’s how it stands over at the Equestrian Centre.
Ireland’s first representative in the pool goes at 7.07pm with Nicholas Quinn going in Heat 2 of the men’s 100m breaststroke. The 23-year-old is in Lane 3.
A strong swim from Quinn and he finishes fourth in his heat. His time of 1:01.29 is the fourth fastest after two heats with the top 16 times set to advance. It’s a case of watch this space with four heats remaining in the 100m breaststroke.
Dan Martin has equaled Ireland’s best ever time in the men’s Olympic road race as he finished in 13th position. Nicholas Roche crossed the line in 29th, with Belgium’s Greg Van Avermaet taking gold.
The London-born athlete is due to be start the third set of male gymnasts qualification rounds at 10.30pm Irish time.
The Irish gymnast has secured a score of 12.866 with the event still in progress.
The Irish gymnast’s latest score is 14.133, meaning he is on 26.999 overall.
14.300 for the Irish gymnast in the Vault.
A place in the final is still a realistic target.
His latest score is a solid 14.000.
It’s been a pretty consistent overall performance thus far from Behan.
It looks unlikely to be good enough to earn him a place in the final.
Behan also hobbled off after landing awkwardly during the final part of his routine.
His total is 83.232
Behan has finished 38th overall, with an overall tally of 83.232.
