Olympic Games

Sonia O’Sullivan: A home victory would be worth so much more to the Dublin Marathon than course records

Is it really necessary to field a race of unknown athletes in the Dublin Marathon who literally just take the money and run?

Daniel Wiffen finds inspiration from Joyce on the next stage of his swimming odyssey

The Olympic champion was in UCD on Wednesday evening to receive the James Joyce award

After the Olympics, athletes face a further tough challenge: the comedown

With life choices to make following the games, every Olympian needs a strategy for moving forward

Chris Hoy has ‘two to four years’ left to live after terminal cancer diagnosis

Six-time Olympic cycling gold medallist, 48, says he has stage 4 cancer which has metastasised from his prostate

Olympian David Gillick: ‘I coach children. It can be hard dealing with parents ... some get so caught up on results’

Gillick covered the Paris Olympics for RTÉ. He is a two-time European indoor champion and Irish 400m record holder, as well as an ambassador for VHI parkrun

Happiness is not considered to be an important goal in some cultures

Some researchers have found that striving to achieve happiness leads to thinking that time is scarce, which produces unhappiness

An Irishwoman in Paris: I feel a magnetic drag to be Franco-Irish and participate in French politics

The Olympics and Paralympics made this Irishwoman proud to live in Paris

Jordan Chiles appeals to Swiss supreme court over stripping of Olympic bronze

Romania’s Ana Barbosu was awarded bronze over Chiles and IOC ordered American to return Olympic medal

Sebastian Coe makes pitch for IOC presidency against tough field

Former British runner and World Athletics president is one of seven candidates battling for the job

Mourners pay respects at funeral of Ugandan Olympic athlete killed when set on fire by partner

Rebecca Cheptegei was buried at her ancestral home in Uganda on Saturday

Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn tops latest world breaking rankings despite Olympic flop

World DanceSport Federation ranks the Australian as number one in the world, although Paris Games are excluded from methodology

Paris to name sports venue after Ugandan Olympic marathon runner killed in petrol attack

Rebecca Cheptegei died four days after suffering burns to more than 75 per cent of her body

Olympic marathon runner from Uganda dies after petrol attack by partner

Rebecca Cheptegei (33) was severely injured in Kenya, sustaining 80 per cent burns to her body

Sign of buoyant times as athletics clubs in Dublin struggle to meet demand

Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club now has a long waiting list at certain juvenile levels

Paris mayor sparks row with plan to keep Olympic rings on Eiffel Tower

Family of engineer Gustave Eiffel say monument ‘is not intended as an advertising platform’

North Korean table tennis players may be punished for Olympic podium selfie with South Korean rivals

Mixed doubles silver medallists Kim Kum-yong and Ri Jong-sik reportedly placed under ‘ideological scrutiny’

‘I’ve failed miserably at a lot of things’: Olympic champions humble as ever on return to Skibbereen

Rowers Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy celebrate gold medal from Paris in Co Cork

Malachy Clerkin: Let’s get the kids playing sport, any sport

Malachy Clerkin: Nothing broadens your sporting horizons like the Paralympics and our national sporting organisations should be wary of becoming complacent or defensive

Sonia O’Sullivan: Doping sanctions on Bahrain come too little and too late for Rhasidat Adeleke

Sonia O'Sullivan: Why was the investigation into Bahrain only made known after the Olympics – when it was concluded last December

Was Rhasidat Adeleke unfairly denied an Olympic bronze medal in Paris?

Athletics Integrity Unit’s charge against Bahrain Athletics Association raises serious questions – including about the merit of Salwa Eid Naser’s Olympic 400m silver medal

Daniel Wiffen urges State to build more 50m swimming pools across the country

Olympic Gold Medallist speaks of barriers he endured growing up at publication of first National Swimming Strategy at the National Aquatic Centre

Bahrain charged with ‘serious anti-doping rule violations’ before Paris Olympics

Country was limited to sending 10 athletes to Paris, one of which was 400m silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser, who was previously banned for a doping violation

Rhasidat Adeleke and Daniel Wiffen voted Team Ireland’s most marketable athletes

Tallaght sprinter claimed a massive 64 per cent of the vote in a survey conducted by Teneo Sports Advisory

Irish sprinter Israel Olatunde to join Olympic champion Noah Lyles’s elite training group

Olatunde is moving to Florida to join group coached by Lance Brauman after breaking his own 100m record last Sunday

Kellie Harrington named Sportswoman of the Month for July

Back-to-back Olympic gold medal winner Kellie Harrington claims the Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman Award for July

Ian O’Riordan: Athletics deserves a bigger share of the sport funding pie

The stats show just how difficult athletics medals are to win at Olympic level and our top athletes deserve all the funding help they can get

‘Times are changing’ – NI Olympians speak about coming together as one at homecoming

Function in Co Down celebrates achievements of athletes including Rhys McClenaghan who won gold for Ireland and swimmer Jack McMillan who struck gold for Team GB

Your highlights of the Olympics: ‘The Italia ‘90 moment for the next generation’

We asked our readers to reflect on a special few weeks in Paris

Donohoe signals more State funding for sport after success at the Olympic Games

Minister says there will be some ‘big and positive announcements’ about sports capital funding in September

IOC’s self praise jars when self reflection is required

With Paris 2024 over, the International Olympic Committee will have plenty of issues to address when the next Games begin in LA 2028

Sonia O’Sullivan: Lessons in finishing fourth in the Olympics will stand to Rhasidat Adeleke

Sonia O'Sullivan: The best thing Rhasidat Adeleke can do now is return to competitive action and race again against the athletes who beat her to the medal podium in Paris

Athletics facilities: Dublin well-served but Cork among large parts of the country severely lacking

Paris Olympic review: Though now basking in our athletes’ recent success, we can expect a renewed focus on facilities, funding and coaching to be high on the agenda

JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif cyberbullying lawsuit

Algerian Olympic champion boxer files criminal complaint in France against X over alleged ‘cyber-harassment'

Dutch beach volleyball player who raped child breaks silence over Olympics

Steven van de Velde spent 13 months in prison for rape, and played as part of Netherlands pair in Paris

Politicians promise more Olympic funding, but where will it go?

A breakdown of Government spending on sport shows biggest chunk goes on capital and equipment

Olympic organisers used the Seine to showcase Paris, but sick swimmers do not make for a good look

It is curious that different bodies’ readings of the river’s water quality produced different results

Post-Olympics comedown can leave athletes feeling exhausted, empty and aimless

We will miss those two weeks of uncomplicated joy which felt like a holiday for the heart

Daniel Wiffen homecoming: ‘It’s so good to have the whole village backing you’

‘We are a small village but we are now a big place on the map,’ Olympic swimming gold and bronze medallist tells his local community in Magheralin

In Pictures: Team Ireland’s Olympic homecoming

Thousands lined O’Connell Street as Ireland’s athletes travelled back from Paris 2024

Jordan Chiles must return Olympic bronze medal after USA Gymnastics appeal fails

CAS on Sunday ruled in favour of an appeal by Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who will move up to third place in the event

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