Tokyo 2020

[westcorklad]

Ireland have made history this evening by beating France in the final of the World Rugby Sevens tournament to book their ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. With full teams in womens` hockey and in the equestrian events also having qualified along with the individual athletes it looks as though Ireland will be sending their largest ever team to an Olympic Games. How many if any medals will they win at the Games?

[tony1]

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry will be representative Ireland. Some other name are playing in the Olympic Golf are
!. Jon Rahm ESP
2 Justin Thomas USA
3 Collin Morikawa USA
4 Xander Schauffele USA
5 Bryson DeChambeau USA
7 Viktor Hovland NOR
8 Hideki Matsuyama JPN
9 Paul Casey GBR
10 Abraham Ancer MEX
11 Sungjae Im KOR

[westcorklad]

The opening ceremony is tomorrow which seems a bit strange as i think a few events started wednesday. Best of luck to all taking part especially the irish. Hopefully covid wont ruin it for any of them.

It`s mainly the mens and womens soccer competitions which always start a few days before the opening ceremony to give enough time to fit in all the games and breaks between them. Unfortunately some athletes have already been ruled out of the Olympics beuse of testing positive for Covid. There are likely to be a good few more over the next 2 and half weeks.

[westcorklad]

Do you know who rory and shane are playing tony? Or has the draw for the golf been made yet.

The draw for the 3 balls won`t be made until a day or 2 before the start of the competition next week. Anyway there is no cut in the Olympic golf tournament so barring injury or Covid everyone will get to play 72 holes.

[westcorklad]

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry will be representative Ireland. Some other name are playing in the Olympic Golf are
!. Jon Rahm ESP
2 Justin Thomas USA
3 Collin Morikawa USA
4 Xander Schauffele USA
5 Bryson DeChambeau USA
7 Viktor Hovland NOR
8 Hideki Matsuyama JPN
9 Paul Casey GBR
10 Abraham Ancer MEX
11 Sungjae Im KOR

None of the 3 medallists in Rio, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson or Matt Kuchar, will be in Tokyo.

[westcorklad]

Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron in Tokyo today. Some of the rowers were in action early today including Sanita Puspure who comfortably won her opening race. Hopefully she will
win a medal over the next week.

[tony1]

Mens Olympic Golf - Winner Betting Odds 6 places

Jon Rahm 9/2
Collin Morikawa8/1
Xander Schauffele 10/1
Justin Thomas 11/1
Rory McIlroy 11/1
Bryson DeChambeau 14/1
Hideki Matsuyama 14/1
Viktor Hovland 14/1
Paul Casey 18/1
Abraham Ancer 22/1
Joaquin Niemann 25/1
Shane Lowry 25/1

[westcorklad]

A comfortable win in their heat earlier today for the Skibbereen rowers Paul O`Donovan and Fintan McCarthy. Hoppefully O`Donovan will win another medal in the next week to go with his silver from Rio.

[westcorklad]

A great start to the Games today for the Irish womens` hockey team in their 1st ever Olympic appearance beating South Africa 2-0. They will be facing stronger opposition over the next few days but hopefully they will have a good run in the competition.

[westcorklad]

Jon Rahm out of the golf after testing positive for covid. He's in hard luck with the covid.

Bryson DeChambeau is also out of the Olympics due to testing positive for Covid. He has been replaced by Patrick Reed who also played in the Rio Games. I very much doubt they will be the last big names to have to pull out of the Olympics.