Seriously impressive opener by Mark English to finish just two hundredths of a second behind 1:41 man Gabriel Tual and advance to the 800m semi-final. One of his most impressive championship runs ever.

Countries with more than 1 Gold 👀

🏃🏼‍♀️ | ATHLETICS A fantastic performance from Rhasidat Adeleke sees her become the first Irish female sprinter to ever qualify for an Olympic final 🔥🔥🔥 The Tallaght woman clocks 49.95 to take second and seal her place in Friday’s decider 🙌 #TeamIreland | #Paris2024

Rhasidat Adeleke finishes second in her semi-final in 49.95. She becomes: The first Irishwoman ever to make an Olympic sprint final. The first Irish athlete ever to make an Olympic final in a flat sprint event. Final is Friday - 7pm Irish time. 📸 Sam Barnes

This is the race I'm most looking forward to now!

Moments like this. 🥹❤️

The best EVER performances according to the World Athletics scoring tables: 1322 400mH 50.37 Sydney MCLAUGHLIN 2024-08-08 1314 100m 10.49 Florence GRIFFITH-JOYNER 1988-07-16 1313 400mH 50.65 Sydney MCLAUGHLIN 2024-06-30 1312 400mH 50.68 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 2022-07-22 #Wow

Job Done :) on to Sunday!!!

That's cruel 😭😭😭 Sub 3:20 but not to be this time! Fair play to the team.

That 4x400m Irish Time would have got 🥇 in 1992, 1996 and 2000 🥈in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020! You have to get back to 1988 for it not to medal aka the world record race!

Your regular reminder that in summer 2022, the Irish women's 4x400m relay were chasing races just to qualify for the European Championship in Munich. They are now 4th in the World!

Some great finishes outside our medals: 4th - Women’s 4x400m (Relay) 4th - Rhasidat Adeleke (400m) 4th - Dickson/Waddilove (Sailing) 5th - Casey/Cremen (Rowing) 5th - Rory McIlroy (Golf) 5th - Jack Marley (Boxing) 6th - Ireland Men’s (Rugby 7s) 6th - Corrigan/Timoney (Rowing)

With the final gold handed out (well done to the U.S. women’s basketball team) Team Ireland finishes 19th - nineteenth!! - on the global medal table. To the OFI, the athletes, gavin noble OLY and the team behind The Team: thank you. It’s been the most amazing fortnight to watch.

Lots of brilliant points made here by Derval, Sonia and Rob - you just hope the people with the power to enact what they suggest are listening.

Talk about a welcome party! 🎉 🏟️ 🇧🇼 Look at Botswana pack an entire stadium to celebrate their Olympic team’s triumphs in Paris including Letsile Tebogo’s 200m gold medal and the men’s 4x400m relay silver medal. #Paris2024 #Olympics #Athletics

There might have been no medal for Irish athletics in Paris, but the women's 400m and women's 4x400m finals were the #2 and #3 watched events by Irish audiences. 926,000 & 910,000 viewers. Those are huge, huge numbers. balls.ie/olympics/incre…

Ireland's fastest man is joining the Florida training group of the Olympic 100 metres champion. A great opportunity for Israel Olatunde to learn from Noah Lyles, among others, having just lowered his own Irish record to 10.12 seconds last Sunday. irishtimes.com/sport/athletic…

💥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐧𝐞 - 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐔𝟐𝟎 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 💥 A busy day ahead in Lima, Peru as the World Athletics U20 Championships get underway 🤩 ✨ Elizabeth Ndudi - Women's Long Jump - Qualification - 3:15pm ✨ Mixed 4x400m Relay - Heats - 3:40pm

Great to see field events leading the charge here 😁

Two nationals records in the Half Marathon, one for Shona Heslip in Charlieville (1:10:57, old 1:12:19) and Efeem Gidey in Copenhagen (1:00:51, old 1:01:45) Athletics Ireland