John Joe Nevin felt more pressure making his professional debut on Monday night in Boston than going into the 2012 Olympic final in London.

Michael Conlan has missed out on a place in the Olympic final.

Michael Conlan is aiming to book a place in the Olympic flyweight boxing final this evening.

Mark Clattenburg has been chosen by FIFA as the referee for the Olympic men’s final between Brazil and Mexico on Saturday.

Silver — and now for gold! There are moments in a lifetime that etch events in the mind. Yesterday was such a moment when Katie Taylor gave the nation cause to rejoice.

Katie Taylor has qualified for tomorrow's Olympic Lightweight Final after she beat Mazvuna Chorieva 17-9 in their semi-final bout at the ExCel Arena in London.

THOSE who have hammered Kenny Egan since his return from Beijing have failed to land the knockout punch and, last night, the Olympic silver medallist was back among his own.

Ireland’s finest amateurs will be in action at The O2, Dublin, on Saturday, March 21, for the Hunky Dorys Fight Night.

THE fact that we have been here before — when Cian O’Connor was stripped of a gold medal in Athens four years ago because his horse tested positive for a banned sedative — does not make it any easier to accept the disappointment that another Irish horseman has been disqualified from the Olympics.

Shortly after 12 noon today, Ireland's sole show jumping representative at the Olympic Games, Denis Lynch, enters the arena in Hong Kong to jump the round that might qualify him for the Olympic final.

Paul Hession gave notice that he is a serious contender for a place in the Olympic final by running a season's best time (20.37 seconds) in this afternoon's world class 200 metres race at the Aviva London Grand Prix.

Lawyers representing Dwain Chambers are to mount a legal challenge in the High Court to his lifetime suspension for using banned steroids to enable him to compete in the Beijing Olympics.

AMIR KHAN set himself a seven-year target to become the richest fighter in British boxing history after ending his amateur career with an emphatic revenge win over Mario Kindelan.

SONIA O'SULLIVAN will not make any decision on her athletics future until later this year, the Cobh athlete revealed yesterday.

Kelly Holmes plans to forget she is an Olympic champion as she goes all out for a second gold medal.

It was far from the ending to her fifth Olympic final that Sonia O'Sullivan had dreamt of, but, having been burned off the pace after 2-and-a-half laps of tonight's 5000m final, the Cobh athlete was still thankful for the experience.

Italian official Pierluigi Collina has refused to rule out coming to referee in the Premiership in the 2005-6 season after he has passed the retirement age of 45 for Italy’s Serie A.

Injury and illness look to be France’s most dangerous early opponents as they embark on a World Cup campaign they hope will culminate in at least a third final appearance in five attempts.