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Legia Warsaw players and fans celebrate winning the Polish league title back in May. They face Dundalk later this month. Czarek Sokolowski Czarek Sokolowski

• Former president of the IABA Dominic O’Rourke said he was “shocked” to hear that Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly has tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Rio Olympics.
• Dundalk will meet Legia Warsaw in a two-legged Champions League play-off to qualify for the competition’s group stages.
• Tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final double-header of Tyrone v Mayo and Dublin v Donegal is a sell-out.
• Long-serving Derry senior footballer Gerard O’Kane has retired from the inter-county game.

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• A Moroccan boxer has been held by Brazilian police over an alleged sex attack at Rio’s Olympic Village.
• Brazilian football legend Pele says poor health will prevent him from lighting the Olympic cauldron at the Games’ opening ceremony tonight.
• Lionel Messi is not among the three finalists for the Uefa Best Player in Europe award as Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Antoine Griezmann have been nominated.
• Liverpool midfielder James Milner has announced his retirement from international football at the age of 30.

The Best Thing We Shared

Our dynamic duo in Rio, Niall Kelly and Sinead O’Carroll, talk Ireland’s medal prospects at the Olympic Games.
https://www.facebook.com/The42.ie/videos/1169618679767286/

On The Record

 The fund announcement was viewed as evidence that the association is not only out of step with what the league requires, but that it really doesn’t care. They have no bread? Let them eat cake. Instead of a standing ovation, John Delaney became Marie Antoinette.” – League of Ireland columnist John O’Sullivan on the FAI’s latest offering to clubs.

The Fixture List

• There is action in both the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division and First Division tonight. Keep up-to-date with the scores here.
• Tomorrow, there are several Irish athletes getting their Olympic games underway including rower Sanita Puspure (12.30pm), cyclists Dan Martin and Nico Roche in the men’s road race (1.30pm),  gymnast Kieran Behan (2.30pm) and the men’s hockey team (v India, 3pm).
• In the All-Ireland senior football quarter-finals, it’s Tyrone v Mayo (4pm) and  Dublin v Donegal (6pm), while Kerry play Mayo in the All-Ireland junior football final (2pm).
• Elswhere, the All-Ireland intermediate hurling finals sees Kilkenny meet Clare (6pm).
• There’s ladies football with Cavan playing Laois (2pm) and Kerry taking on Waterford (3.45pm).
• It’s the first Saturday of the season for the three divisions of the English Football League. Get a full fixture list here.

Showbiz, Baby!

Irish Olympic boxer Michael Conlan has a pop at Rory McIlory with this picture with golfer Rickie Fowler. Shots fired!

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