Olympic standards must be held high

RTÉ should be congratulated for its magnificent coverage of the Olympic Games. 

Irish people had a great opportunity to watch a variety of different sports, possibly for the first time. It was enlightening to watch team sports like hockey and volleyball, in which the teams had a right to ask for a refereeing decision to be reviewed by a video referee. The process, which has been used in rugby, took up very little time and provided a magnificent example of how other games, especially soccer, could benefit. It also demonstrated how technology can insure fair play, which should be at the heart of all sport.

Older Irish people will remember that only hours after Ronnie Delany won a gold medal in Melbourne in 1956, the late Fred Teidt was robbed of a gold medal in the boxing. The decision that night was widely denounced as a travesty.