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• Pat Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland and European Olympic Committee was arrested in Brazil this morning over ticket touting allegations.
• The 71-year-old was admitted to hospital as a precaution shortly after his arrest and has also stood down from the Olympic council.

Pat Hickey's passport and accreditation at today's police press conference in Rio. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

• Some boxing judges have been sent home from the Olympic Games after controversial results.
• The numbers back up Ireland’s sense of injustice at Michael Conlan‘s defeat.
• Back on the track, there was disappointment for Ireland’s 800m hope Ciara Everard.
• It wasn’t a great day for Irish golfers in Rio either.

Home

• Connacht centre Dave McSharry has been forced to retire at the age of 26 due to concussion.
• Leinster will start the season without a host of big name players and defence coach Kurt McQuilkin as the Kiwi has returned home for personal reasons.
• The FAI have backed Aleksander Ceferin as their preferred candidate to become the new Uefa president.
• Munster DoR Erasmus considering recruiting a centre after Francis Saili injury.
• Rory Best won’t be Ulster captain this season, Rob Herring and Andrew Trimble will share the honour.

Away

Brazil fans react to the their loss to China in today's women's volleyball quarter-final. Robert F. Bukaty Robert F. Bukaty

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• Scotland have announced the Gregor Townsend will take over from Vern Cotter as head coach next summer.
• US swimmer Ryan Lochte has been ordered to remain in Brazil as police attempt to put together his side of his alleged robbery at gunpoint.
• Here’s all today’s transfer gossip.

Best Thing We Shared

RTE devised an incredibly realistic Olympic boxing game where you box the head of Vladimir Nikitin yet somehow lose every time.

On The Record

 I didn’t think I could run half a second faster than yesterday.”

– Thomas Barr reacting to his superb 400m hurdle semi-final victory last night.

Where We Were Today

Leinster had their coaches up for interview in Tallaght before the start of the season and Murray Kinsella was there to meet them.

Tommy Dickson / INPHO Tommy Dickson / INPHO / INPHO

The Fixture List

It’s another busy day for Ireland’s Olympians tomorrow. Most importantly, Thomas Barr goes into the blocks for his 400m hurdle Olympic final at 16.00.

Natalya Coyle and Arthur Lanigan O’Keefe will begin their Modern Pentathlon with the fencing component at 14.00 and 18.30 respectively. And in between Bryan Keane will compete in the Triathlon from 15.00.

There’s a heap of Europa League qualifiers too, with West Ham among those in action from 19.15.

Showbiz, Baby!

Gary McCabe’s free-kick for Shamrock Rovers on Monday was an absolute rocket!
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