Live: Team Ireland at Paris Olympics - Day 9 updates
PERSONAL BEST: Ireland’s Cathal Doyle ran a PB in his 1500m semi-final finishing in 10th place. Picture: ©INPHO/James Crombie
Cathal Doyle spoke with RTÉ after his 1500m semi-final. Doyle had mixed emotions about the race but is happy to run a PB.Â
"Mixed emotions you know I felt like it was there it wasn’t going away from me. But they were a bit more comfortable longer into the race than I was. Maybe it was the extra round, that’s my fault. But its hard to be too disappointed when I ran a second PB. Back in May my PB was 3:36.08.
"Its not just the physical it’s the mental getting up for a race three days in a row but its hard not to be too disappointed with that."
Cathal Doyle finishes in 10th place in his 1500m semi-final ruinning a PB of 3:33.15 and will not progress into the final with just the top six going through.Â
Cathal Doyle will be running in the Men's 1500m semi-final at 8.10pm. He will be the last of the Irish in action today.Â
After the excitement of another bronze for Team Ireland and our seveth medal overall, the most in any Olympic games, its now time to turn our attention to the Stade de France for the athletics as Cathal Doyle will run in the 1500m semi-final at 8.10pm.
Speaking to RTÉ after the race Daniel Wiffen said he was" happy but disappointed at the same time".Â
"I did try digging deep, tried to push it but I didn't have enough today.
"Being an Olympic champion is like a dream come true. I did have sights set on a world record but today wasn't the day. We will be back better next time."
When asked if he was looking forward to the 10km and looking forward to going home Wiffen replied "I am looking forward to that. But tonight I'm going to celebrate"
"To be honest, it's quite emotional. Today's race didn't go my way, but who cares, I'm Olympic champion."
Daniel Wiffen has added a 1500m freestyle bronze medal to the 800m he won here in Nanterre to the west of Paris last Tuesday. The USA’s Bobby Finke claimed gold with an astonishing time of 14:30.67.
The 23-year old Irishman had predicted that it would need a world record time to win this race after the heats on Saturday morning. He wasn’t wrong with Finke defending his title and taking the win with a new global best time of 14:30.67.
Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy shadowed Finke the entire way but never caught the American who took the lead early and never relinquished it. Wiffen came in just shy of nine seconds after the American and just over a second ahead of Hungary’s David Betlehem.Â
A bronze medal is a superb achievement but it is not the colour the Magheralin man wanted. Double world champion in the 800 and 1500, he had gotten the better of Finke in the shorter distance but not this time.
Wiffen had qualified fastest from the heats with a time of 14:40.34 but two of the field here had previously swam the distance faster than his PB of 14:34.07, which he had set when winning the World Championships earlier this year.
With 500m to go Daniel Wiffen is still in third with Bobby Finke swimming under World Record pace.
At the half-way mark Daniel Wiffen is in third behind America's Bobby Finke and Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri.
Daniel Wiffen makes his way poolside. He will swim in lane four having qualified as the fastest.Â
Offaly's Megan Armitage has finished in 35th place in the Women's Road Race after a gruelling 158km. A brilliant debut from Armitage who took up cycling seriously in 2020 during lockdown.Â
It is nearly time for the Men's 1500m Men's Freestyle final with Daniel Wiffen going into the final as the fastest qualifier. Wiffen will be aiming for his second gold of the Olympics. Watch live on RTÉ 2 at 5.37pm.Â
Michaela Corcoran has been eliminated after a fourth place finish in the Women's Kayak Cross heat.Â
America's Scottie Scheffler takes gold at Le Golf National. Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood secures silver with Japan's Hideki Matsuyama taking bronze. Rory McIlroy finishes tied for 5th with Spain's Jon Rahm.
Rory McIlroy finished his round with a par on the 18 to finish five under for the day and -15 overall. After hitting five birdies in a row from the tenth to the 14th the double bogey on the 15th ended his challenge for a medal. He is currently sitting sixth overall.Â
Scottie Scheffler is top of the leaderboard on -19 and in the clubhouse. Tommy Fleetwood just dropped a shot on the 17th to sit in second place with Hideki Matsuyama two shots behind on -17 in third with one group to go on the course.Â
Liam Jegou bows out of the Men's Kayak Cross finishing in third place in his heat with just the top two progressing. Noel Hendrick also finishes in third place in his heat which sees the end of his Games also.
Megan Armitage is among the first 20 in the main bunch chasing a three minute five-woman breakaway with 70km to go.
Disaster for Rory McIlroy on the 15th as he hits the water and a double bogey dropping him down to -15. Scottie Scheffler joins the lead with a birdie on the 16th to join Tommy Fleetwood on -18. It is disaster too for Jon Rahm on the 14th as he hits a double bogey to drop to -16. It is an dramatic and exciting final round at Le Golf National.Â
Rory McIlroy hits a birdie on the 14th and is now tied for Bronze with Hideki Matsuyama. He is now just one shot of the joint leaders Jon Rahm and Tommy Fleetwood.
Rory McIlroy is within medal contention currently six under for the day through 13 and -16 under overall just two shots behind joint leaders Spain's Jon Rahm and Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood who are on -18 overall. He is just one shot of bronze with Japan's Hideki Matsuyama sitting on -17. It is set to be an exciting finish to the round.Â
Shane Lowry has finished his fourth round on leve par for the round and five under for the tournament. He hit four birdies after a disastrous opening double bogey and finished the round with a bogey on the 16 and 18.Â
Finn Lynch is sailing in the Men's Dinghy. He is currently lying in 13th after seven races. Race eight has been delayed. Eve McMahon was due to go in the Women's Dinghy at 1.35pm but that race also has a delayed start.Â
Shane Lowry is two shots under through 15 and seven under overall. The Offaly man is 12 shots behind leader Spain's Jon Rahm. Rory McIlroy is six shots of the leader currently three under for the round thourgh ten holes and -13 overall.Â
Shane Lowry is level par through 10 sitting on five under overall. After a double bogey on the first the Offaly man found par on the next four hole before hitting a birdie on the sixth. He went on to par the next three holes before hitting his second birdie of the day at the tenth.
Rory McIlroy is currently four shots off the joint leaders Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm. He is two under for his round through five and -12 for the tournament. He hit a bridie on the first and third holding par on two, four and five. Rahm just missed a birdie putt to give him the outright lead.
Up next for the Irish is Megan Armitage in the Women's Road Race. This is the Offaly woman's first Olympic games and will take to the 158km race at 1pm. She becomes only the second Irish woman to take part in this event.Â
Armitage will be hoping to match her team mates Ben Healy and Ryan Mullen who had great performances in the Men's Road Race yesterday.
Nicola Tuthill was speaking to RTÉ after her Hammer Throw qualification. She is happy with her performance and is still looking to breaking the 70 mark which has eluded her to date.Â
“It's amazing the stadium is so full its just so loud its such a good crowd its amazing" said Tuthill about the stadium atmosphere.
"I am happy I am always looking for the 70 and I have been at 69.90 twice now at my last two competitions. So I am dying to break it. I am not massively far off it, I guess 71 needed to make the final so I would have had to PB but to be able to bring out the 69 was yeah.
"I am only 20 I was the youngest one in the field there for hammer. To be here was amazing and the first throw didn’t go my way so I was a little bit stressed I was like I have to get one out now. To be able to follow with a 68 and 69 I am so happy."
Olympic gold medallist Rhys McClenaghan was at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris and Brendan O'Brien chatted to him about his rountine on competition day.
In her third throw Nicola Tuthill hit 69.90 and improvement on her second throw and finished in 16th overall. She misses out on the final by 1m 16cm. An impressive first Games for the 20-year-old from Bandon.
Rory McIlroy will start his final round at 11.28am. McIlroy is in the shake up for a medal -10 for the tournament sitting 4 shots off joint leaders Spains Jon Rahm and America's Xander Schauffele who are on -14.
Shane Lowry is currently two over for his round through four. He had a horror start with a double bogey on the first to leave him sitting on three under overall tied in 33.
Nicola Tuthill is sitting in 17th overall after two throws in her Hammer Throw qualification. She had a no throw in her first round and threw 68.87 in the second round. She needs 73.08 to qualify and has one throw left to hit the qualification mark.
Bandon's Nicola Tuthill will make her Olympic debut in the Women's Hammer Throw qualification group B which starts at 10.45am.
The first of the Irish in action on day nine will be Shane Lowry as he takes to the course at Le Golf National for his fourth round. Lowry is sitting five under for the tournament and tied for 23. He will tee off at 10.17am.
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: Golf, Men’s Individual, Final Round, Shane LowryÂ
: Women’s Hammer Throw, Qualification Group B, Nicola TuthillÂ
: Sailing, Men’s Dinghy, Finn Lynch, Race 7Â
: Golf, Men’s Individual, Final Round, Rory McIlroyÂ
: Sailing, Men’s Dinghy, Finn Lynch, Race 8Â
: Cycling Road, Women’s Road Race, Megan ArmitageÂ
: Sailing, Women’s Dinghy, Eve McMahon Race 7Â
: Men’s Kayak Cross Heat 2, Liam JegouÂ
Sailing, Women’s Dinghy, Eve McMahon Race 8Â
: Men’s Kayak Cross Heat 7, Noel HendrickÂ
: Women’s Kayak Cross Heat 8, Madison CorcoranÂ
: Swimming, Men’s 1500m Freestyle FINAL, Daniel WiffenÂ
: Athletics, Men’s 1500m semi-final 2, Cathal Doyle
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