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# olympics - Thursday 6 December, 2018
After missing his Olympic dream, Ray Moylette tried the ‘big, bad world’ for two months
The Mayo man is now 11-0 as a pro and is bringing a title fight to his hometown tomorrow night.
# olympics - Thursday 29 November, 2018
BOD: 'Big names could switch to sevens in pursuit of Olympic gold'
The 2018/19 World Rugby Sevens Series gets underway in Dubai this weekend.
# olympics - Monday 29 October, 2018
'You feel like the anti-social one when you’re turning down nights out to focus on training'
Aifric Keogh speaks to The42 about the surge of success in Irish rowing.
# olympics - Friday 26 October, 2018
Andy Keogh says Usain Bolt's first touch is 'like a trampoline' after arrival in Australia
The Ireland striker said the Olympic gold medalist’s presence in the A-League was ‘like a kick in the teeth’.
# olympics - Thursday 18 October, 2018
The trailer for the new Katie Taylor documentary is here and it looks magnificent
‘KATIE’ hits Irish cinemas on 26 October.
# olympics - Thursday 20 September, 2018
'Where does the international fight against doping in sport go from here?' - Sport Ireland
John Treacy has released a statement to criticise Wada’s decision to reinstate Russia.
# olympics - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
North and South Korea will bid to host the Olympic Games together
It’s an unprecedented plan that would have been unthinkable not long ago.
# olympics - Sunday 16 September, 2018
Tiger's twilight, farewell Captain Cook and all the week's best sportswriting
Stick on the kettle and settle into some of our favourite sports articles from this week.
# olympics - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
'I could have been dead, I was damn lucky,' says Olympic champion left paralysed after accident
Kristina Vogel has made her first public appearance since an accident in June that left her paralysed.
# olympics - Friday 7 September, 2018
2016 Olympic champion cyclist left paralysed after crash during training
Germany’s Kristina Vogel says she is slowly coming to terms with her condition after suffering spinal injuries.
# olympics - Saturday 18 August, 2018
Saving a life more important than a gold medal - Michael Phelps
The US swimmer has spoken before of falling into depression after each Olympics.
# olympics - Monday 13 August, 2018
Hockey Ireland to receive €500k high performance grant following women's success at World Cup
The organisation received the highest allocation of funding earmarked for 17 different sports bodies.
# olympics - Monday 23 July, 2018
12-time Olympic medallist Ryan Lochte slapped with 14-month ban for doping violation
The US swimmer has been suspended over ‘use of a prohibited method’.
# olympics - Sunday 8 July, 2018
The Irish teen sensation aiming to follow in Annalise Murphy's footsteps
19-year-old Aoife Hopkins on her dream of representing Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
# olympics - Tuesday 3 July, 2018
From 100m gold to English Paper 1: Meet the Irish teenage sprint star on track for glory
Emerging talent Ciara Neville speaks to The42 about balancing her time between training and study as she continues her rise in athletics.
# olympics - Thursday 28 June, 2018
Two-time Olympic champion Vogel stable after undergoing emergency spinal surgery
The German remains in intensive care in Berlin.
# olympics - Thursday 31 May, 2018
CAS dismisses Nesta Carter appeal, Jamaica remain stripped of Beijing 4x100m relay gold
Jamaica’s 4×100 metre relay team will not get their 2008 Olympic gold medals back after Nesta Carter’s appeal was dismissed by CAS.
# olympics - Friday 4 May, 2018
Sports fan who attacked man with baseball bat in row over Olympic sailing avoids prison sentence
Patrick O’Reilly became enraged when other drinkers in a Dublin pub began jeering him over his defence of the sport.
# olympics - Saturday 21 April, 2018
'Since I was a teenager, I would always have felt sick after certain types of food'
Irish karate star Caradh O’Donovan on battling Crohn’s disease, funding her dream and aiming for the Tokyo Olympics.
# olympics - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
Russia's Olympic ban has been lifted after 'the most difficult months in the history of Russian sports'
The IOC has deemed the nation compliant after the remaining drug tests from the Winter Olympics were negative.
# olympics - Thursday 22 February, 2018
The final race of Lindsey Vonn's Olympic career ends in disappointment
Vonn’s last race in South Korea ended without a medal as Michelle Gisin won Alpine combined gold in Pyeongchang.
# olympics - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
Just 12 tweets for anyone who has become unexpectedly bet into the Winter Olympics
You didn’t love figure skating until right now.
# olympics - Monday 19 February, 2018
'Love is love': Televised gay kiss lights up Olympics
It has been hailed by some as a landmark moment in Games history and the footage went viral on social media.
# olympics - Sunday 18 February, 2018
Sally Field tried to set her son up with Olympian Adam Rippon via Twitter
Can you blame her?
# olympics - Tuesday 13 February, 2018
The intense turn that created a scary luge crash has become the most feared section of the Olympics
The curve is a 45-degree turn that turns athletes to the right before making them adjust to the left coming out of it.
# olympics - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
Outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea among security staff at the Winter Olympics
The military has stepped in as 41 hospitalised with norovirus.
# olympics - Wednesday 24 January, 2018
Up to 175 years in jail for disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor
More than 100 women and girls accused Nassar of a pattern of serial abuse.
# olympics - Saturday 20 January, 2018
'I didn't want to be alive' - Michael Phelps opens up about battling anxiety, depression
“After every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression,” the 32-year-old Phelps said.
# olympics - Wednesday 17 January, 2018
Hand of friendship: North and South Korea will compete together at the Winter Olympics
They’ll be sending a joint ice hockey team and will march under a “unification flag”.
# olympics - Monday 15 January, 2018
Olympic champion Simone Biles reveals she was sexually abused by ex-US team doctor
Larry Nassar was last month jailed for 60 years for child porn charges.
# olympics - Saturday 23 December, 2017
‘I wasn’t planning to stop swimming… It was a pretty abrupt decision’
Irish Olympian Sycerika McMahon chats to The42 about her decision to retire from the sport.
# olympics - Tuesday 5 December, 2017
Why calls to include eSports in the Olympics have been met with a mixed reaction
Many professional gamers believe becoming an Olympic sport would be a step in the wrong direction.
# olympics - Friday 24 November, 2017
Gold-medal bobsledder Zubkov stripped of Olympic titles
Four more Russian athletes have been banned from competing due to anti-doping rule violations.
# olympics - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
USA Gymnastics doctor pleads guilty to molesting young gymnasts
Dr Larry Nassar, 54, was charged with molesting seven girls. Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas said they were among his victims.
# olympics - Tuesday 17 October, 2017
Shane Ross says Ireland can be friends with the OCI again following ticket deal cancellation
In August it emerged that the OCI was locked into a “pretty watertight” contract with THG.
# olympics - Wednesday 11 October, 2017
Olympian representative calls for athletes to be chipped to combat doping
WOA boss Mike Miller wants the imminent technology advancement put to use.
# olympics - Friday 6 October, 2017
Rio 2016 chief, arrested on charges of attempted bribery, had 16 bars of gold in Swiss bank
Carlos Nuzman is alleged to have paid off colleagues in return for them voting in favour of the Brazilian city being Olympic host.
# olympics - Thursday 28 September, 2017
Russia issues arrest warrant for whistleblower who exposed state-sponsored doping
Grigory Rodchenkov fled to the US where he revealed the extent of the drug problem in Russian sports.
# olympics - Saturday 23 September, 2017
'You're through the ring of fire': Take a tour of the 'Pig Olympics' course at the Ploughing
‘Ring of fire’, it turned out, was a slight exaggeration.
# olympics - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
The host cities for the 2024 and 2028 Olympics have been revealed
Paris will host the 2024 Games, while Los Angeles will stage the 2028 edition.
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