Olympics
- There was further disappointment for Fiona Doyle as she failed to qualify from her 200m breaststroke heat this afternoon.
- Bad weather in Rio caused the postponement of today’s rowing events.
- Michael Phelps won his 20th and 21st gold medals after pulverising fierce rival Chad le Clos to regain his 200m butterfly title before winning the 4x200m free with America.
- And Katie Ledecky bagged her second gold medal of the Games after powering to victory in the women’s 200m freestyle.
- New Zealand scraped into the Olympics 7s quarter-final thanks to Fiji’s dramatic victory over USA.
- A day before turning 43, American Kirstin Armstrong completed a hat-trick of gold medals with victory in the Women’s time-trial.
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- Leinster head coach Leo Cullen has named seven internationals in his first squad of the season ahead of the province’s friendly with Ulster.
- Tipp defender Jimmy Feehan will again postpone a college trip to New Zealand if they win their All-Ireland senior football semi-final against Mayo on 21 August.
- Ex-Dublin forward Ray Cosgrove has hailed the growing maturity of Dublin attacking star Diarmuid Connolly.
Away
- Sonny Bill Williams will miss the November Tests against Ireland after suffering an Achilles tendon injury suffered at the Rio Olympics.
- Everton have completed the transfer of Ashley Williams from Swansea City.
- After falling out with Real Betis manager Gus Poyet, Rafael van der Vaart has signed for Danish champions FC Midtjylland.
- Premier League champions Leicester City have secured the future of manager Claudio Ranieri until 2020.
- Manny Pacquiao is coming out of retirement to fight welterweight champion Jessie Vargas in November.
- Arsene Wenger admits Man United’s new signing Paul Pogba ‘ticks all the boxes’.
- Man United are set to sell two young defenders to Sunderland.
The Best Thing We Shared Today
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Annalise Murphy’s brother Finn joined Sinead O’Carroll in The42‘s Rio base to help explain what he looks out for when he’s watching sailing and why there’s still a long way to go in this competition even though his sister is second in the standings at the start of competition today.
On The Record
“It’s a wait-and-see type thing right now. Let’s wait and see what 20 August brings and then let’s make a big fight after that.”
Eddie Alvarez on the prospect of facing Conor McGregor in a lightweight title defence.
Where We Were Today
Fintan O’Toole was out at Liffey Valley Opel where Daithí Burke (Galway) and Michael Quinlivan (Tipperary) were named the GAA/GPA Opel Players of the Month for July. Meanwhile, Ryan Bailey was at Newstalk’s Premier League launch.
The Fixture List
- The Olympic golf competition gets underway with Pádraig Harrington (11.41am) and Seamus Power (2.47pm) representing Ireland.
- Chloe Magee opens her Olympic campaign against Yihan Wang in the Women’s badminton (1pm) while the Men’s hockey team are in action against Canada (4pm).
- Stephen Donnelly is the next Irish boxer in the ring while it’s a busy day of rowing after the postponement of today’s action (4.45pm).
Showbiz, baby!
There was plenty of sights and sounds at the Etihad Airways GAA World Games in Belfield today.
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