– Ryan Bailey reports from the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro
FOUR EVENTS, FOUR finals, 14 years of age.
Nicole Turner has quickly become the star of this Paralympics Games and she’s proving to be about the only bright spark from an Irish point of view at the minute.
The Laois teenager finished eighth in the final of tonight’s S6 400m freestyle but competing in four medal races out of four is some achievement for a swimmer of her age.
After a busy few days, Turner had very little left in the tank and an evacuation of Ireland’s block in the Athlete’s Village earlier didn’t help her preparations for the race.
“The fire alarm started going off and woke me from my sleep, we all had to evacuate the building and weren’t allowed back in so I didn’t really get much sleep,” she explained afterwards.
“It was pretty hard but I’m happy (with the swim) I’m pretty tired now and looking forward to a day off tomorrow.”
Turner has two events remaining, the 100m breaststroke on Thursday and the 100m freestyle on Saturday: “I’m excited about them, they’re my favourite events so I’m looking forward to that.”
Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko won gold in a time of 5:17.01 but Great Britain’s Ellie Simmons had to settle for bronze behind Lingling Song of China.
Meanwhile, there was disappointment for Ailbhe Kelly who failed to advance from her S8 100m backstroke heat while Phil Eaglesham finished 30th in qualifying for the mixed 10m air rifle prone.
Elsewhere, the Irish sailing team were back on the water today in the third race of the sonar class. Proceedings were delayed due to light wind conditions before the trio of John Twomey, Ian Costelloe and Austin O’Carroll came home in 12th. It leaves them in 13th position overall.
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That will be mental!
What about the Scotland fans?
Should be a great occasion and atmosphere!
Ah lads, couldnt we go to Ibrox?
No guarantee it would till be “Ibrox” by then….. might belong to the Liquidators…..
Someone threw a pound on the pitch at ibrox and police are investigating whether it was a missile or a bid to buy the club :)
Pound? Bit steep for Rangers
Two home games for Ireland!
Well I’m sure the Celtic supporters will be supporting their own Country, right?
Do you think it will be a crowd made up of Irish and Celtic supporters only? Celtic supporters will support their own country anyway.
Majority of Celtic supporters support the Republic of Ireland……..
of course they will be supporting their own country, why would celtic fans in Glasgow want to support west liverchester?
Bollocks to the notion that the majority support Ireland
Surely the majority of Celtic Supporters born and raised in Scotland would support Scotland? Irish connection aside, they are a Scottish club so logic would suggest they’ll support their National side.
Exactly why would they want to support a country full of English fans
Barstoolers must be watering at the mouth, where is Glasgow in Ireland. EMBARRASSMENT”
Majority support scotland with a bit of a gra for Ireland. A smaill minority of hardcore support Ireland.
Hung if you haven’t got a breeze what you are talking about don’t comment
Where is Liverpool, Manchester, London or Newcastle in Ireland. The last time I checked there was no ban on people supporting which ever team they want to…………
Frankie Boyle will be delighted.
Can’t wait for it#COYBIG
Session on
Yeah once the session is on and we have the ‘craic’ sure the match itself is only secondary … Je*us wept
Screw the session chris, looks like someone thinks you’re one of the players.
Jackie Macs testimonial with a game against Ireland was fantastic, even the zombies stayed in hiding and didn’t cause any trouble, Glasgow truly was Green & White that weekend
More fans in the Scotland will know the words of the irish national anthem than in the irish end
Hail hail……..
not since celtic played arsenal in a CL qualifier a few years back has there been so many EPL fans packed into the away end at celtic park
Home from Home.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that now!
Scotland could be an independent country by the time the
match comes around, if they vote ” yes ” to leaving the U.K.
In the referendum in September.
They better make sure that they have the required license needed before they sell tickets
That joke was boring last week
Apparently street sellers in Glasgow have ordered hundreds of green St Georges cross flags that play the match of the day tune when you wave them for the ole ole brigade
Surprised they’ve not taken the opportunity to play some qualifiers in the Capital. Oh well, a train journey and a trip to dark head it is!
None of the stadiums are big enough, apart from the rugby one. I doubt the Scottish FA want to be knocking on their door when they have a bigger stadium in a city which cares more about football.
Why not? They’ve played Internationals in Easter Road before. Murrayfield is a nicer ground than any other in Scotland. It’s not a secret that the SFA will be paying Celtic and Sevco handsomely for use of the grounds, which they probably wouldn’t have had to do at Murrayfield. The chances of Celtic Park being filled are near enough 0 anyway.
Cares more about football? Tell that to any Hibs, Hearts or Aberdeen fan and they’ll tell you that’s rubbish. Supporting Celtic and “The” Rangers is the easy option in Scotland, just because they’ve more fans doesn’t mean Glasgow cares more about football.
The game is in Paradise not in the egg chasers ranch, dry your eyes and move on
That will be some shit game
That will be some sing off ( oh and match of course)