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The 2024 Summer Olympics was the most successful Olympics in the history of the nation, with Ireland breaking their previous record medal haul of 6 at London 2012. The team also surpassed the Atlanta 96 record of 3 Olympics golds in a games, including both a first Olympic medal and Olympic gold medal in gymnastics as well as a first gold for ...
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 Ireland women's hockey team finally qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics; the men followed them in 2024. Through to the 1960s, Ireland was represented in showjumping only by members of the Irish Army Equitation School, as the all-island civilian equestrian governing body was unwilling to compete under the Republic's flag and anthem. [52]
Olympics. Medals table. Through Tuesday. Events finished: 56. Events scheduled: 273
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is ...
Rusted bronze medal from Paris 2024 Olympics, showing detailed artwork and design. Image credits: clem_secchi “There’s been some small bits of tarnishing,” she said in August about the ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics may be nearing its end, but some crucial medals are still on the line. Fifty-two Olympic medals were awarded Saturday across 21 sports, including a gold in men's basketball.
He is the 2024 pommel horse Olympic champion, the first gymnast to win an Olympic gold, or indeed, medal for Ireland. McClenaghan is also a double world champion on the pommel horse, having won gold in 2022 and 2023 , the first Irish artistic gymnast to win world championship gold, having been the first Irish gymnast to win a world medal with ...