London 2012: Day 1

Here is today's schedule for Team Ireland:
Saturday, 28 July
8.30, 12.30, 6.30 Badminton - Women's Singles: Chloe Magee
8.30, 12.30, 6.30 Badminton - Men's Singles: Scott Evans
14.00 Judo – Women’s 48Kg: Lisa Kearney
10.00 Cycling – Men’s Road Race: David McCann, Daniel Martin, Nicolas Roche
10.00 Equestrian - Eventing: Aoife Clark, Mark Kyle, Joseph Murphy, Michael Ryan, Camilla Spiers
11.00 Gymnastics – Men’s Artistic – Floor: Kieran Behan
11.52 and 8.30pm Men 100m Breastroke: Barry Murphy
1.30 Rowing – Women’s Single Sculls: Sanita Puspure
1.30, 20.30 Boxing - Mens 56kg: John Joe Nevin
3.00, 20.00 Boxing - Mens 75kg: Darren O’Neill

by BreakingNews 7/24/2012 10:54:43 AM

According to Kenny Egan, Darren Sutherland is the hardest hitter in the high performance system. He should be too strong for the Nigerian and has started well with a couple of nice shots to the body.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:39:13 PM
Judges' scores for O'Neill - 2-0, 4-0, 5-3, 5-3, 4-2 to put him 4-3 up...

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 2:42:19 PM
A good, stiff left hand is the punctuation mark of a three-punch combo for O'Neill

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:44:10 PM
8-2 O'Neill leads and Billy tells him he's dominating. Which he is.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:45:46 PM
Judges scores for O'Neill in R2 - 6-2, 8-2, 8-1, 8-1, 6-2

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 2:46:10 PM
A gentleman with a South-East England accent has been at the top of his lungs shouting "Potato" during this contest of O'Neill's.

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 2:50:18 PM
In the cycling, the gold goes to Alexandre Vinokourov. Rigoberto Uran (Columbia) took the silver. There was a bunch sprint for bronze.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:51:27 PM
15-6 for Darren O'Neill... Two from two for our boxers. The Nigerian looked physically imposing but O'Neill is very strong and had too many skills. Upped the tempo after the first round.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:52:37 PM
Just to note re the cycling, Vino reserved his first victory of the season for the Olympics.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:53:14 PM
We have one more Irish competitor today. Joseph Murphy in eventing does his dressage in just under ten minutes.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 2:56:03 PM
Norwegian Alexander Kristoff won the bunch sprint for bronze in the cycling by the way.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:10:06 PM
Spoken to both Nevin and O'Neill, both happy to win every round, and expecting tougher challenges to come.

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 3:12:49 PM
The cousins, Nicolas Roche and Daniel Martin finished 87th and 88th. There is no finishing position for David McCann so I'm taking that to mean he withdrew.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:14:18 PM
Joseph Murphy and Electric Cruise recorded 55.6 penalty points in his dressage test and is currently 20th in the individual standings of eventing. Aoife Clark and Master Crusoe are 12th. In the team standings, Ireland lie fourth but they will be lower than that by the time all the scores are totted up.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:20:11 PM
In Tennis news, Roger Federer was serving for the match against Alejandro Falla but was broken. He now has three break points though and looks likely to be serving for a straight sets win shortly enough again.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:21:38 PM
With that, I'm off. There is no more Irish participation today. I will be back on Wednesday. Keep an eye out tonight though for the result of Denis Lynch's appeal, while many eyes will be on Michael Phelps. And we're unlikely to hear anything more - from the OCI anyway - on the betting scandal. All we know is that they have talked to the individual against whom the allegation of betting on an opponent twice at other events this year has been made. An investigation is taking place but the individual's participation in the Games is not being threatened.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:24:01 PM
And Falla won five points in a row, he now leads 6-5 in the second set, with Federer having taken the first. Not just as straightforward as we thought though.

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:24:43 PM
Slán go fóill

by Daragh Ó Conchúir 7/28/2012 3:24:49 PM
The Olympic Council of Ireland have issued a statement tonight regards today's allegations of illegal betting.

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 7:30:31 PM
The Olympic Council of Ireland have issued a statement tonight regards today's allegations of illegal betting.

It reads -

Following media enquiries, the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) wish to clarify the situation.

The OCI received an email alleging a serious incident of illegal betting by an athlete on the current Olympic team last week. The OCI sent the email immediately to its lawyers. On the advice of the laywers the athlete was made aware of the allegation.

The OCI is now requesting full disclosure of documentation from the person making the allegation, so that the allegation can be investigated in a fair and proper manner.

The OCI and the International Olympic Committee are now working together on the matter.

by Will Downing 7/28/2012 7:32:21 PM