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Irish rowers qualified boats in 7 events, each of the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and the final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. The official Irish rowing team for the 2024 Summer Olympics was named on 20 June 2024. [31] Men
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
The Irish Ladies Hockey Union has entered the Olympics since 1984, and in 1980 suspended Northern Irish players who elected to play for the British women's team. [50] The Ireland women's hockey team finally qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics; the men followed them in 2024.
Paris 2024 Organizing Committee President Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games' logo engraved into it. [18]
Olympians are voicing their frustrations over the disappointing quality of their medals from the 2024 Paris Games. Just months after earning their hard-earned medals, athletes have taken to social ...
O'Donovan and McCarthy once again represented Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics, claiming their second successive gold medal in the lightweight double sculls and also becoming the only Irish Olympian to medal at three games. [40] Just a few weeks after his Olympic success O'Donovan won gold in the Single Sculls at the World Championships in ...
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
Rowing Ireland, formerly the Irish Amateur Rowing Union, is the governing body of rowing for Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a cross-border organisation administering the sport in both the Republic of Ireland [ 1 ] and Northern Ireland .