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Thursday 26 November 2020
Ireland’s young athletes took top honours in Portugal.
Never meet you heroes – unless your Derval O’Rourke and Roy Keane.
In a field with record numbers, the course records in both the men’s and women’s Dublin Marathon are broken.
An American engineer discovers how marathon runners – including the 13,000 in Dublin tomorrow – can avoid burnout.
London 2012 unveil “the daddy of all ticketing strategies”
After 100m ‘winner’ Damola Osayomi and hurdler Samuel Okon, now Folashade Abugan fails a steroid test.
Walker Rani Yadav becomes the third athlete suspended over doping after testing positive for Nandrolene.
Nigeria’s Damola Osayomi – who won the women’s 100m – has tested positive for banned stimulants.
Sally Pearson wins gold at the Commonwealth Games but is disqualified hours later after England protest.
The Commonwealth Games hit another snag: a fifth of English swimmers have an upset stomach and blame the pool.
Further woes for organisers of Games in Delhi as athletics track isn’t ready and hockey team made play in 80% humidity.
Games officials enlist the help of Langur monkeys as problems with packs of wild monkeys grow.
The first English athletes arrive at the Commonwealth Games accommodation having spent the weekend in hotels.
Mike Fennell says he has been encouraged by recent improvements but more work is needed.
Two countries confirm they will attend troubled Games as athletes begin to arrive.
Northern Ireland could withdraw from troubled Games, despite urging from all quarters to participate.
The organising committee of the already ill-fated games apologises for the ‘collective failure’ over living conditions.
A day after the Scottish team turns down the accommodation in Delhi, the roof collapses just 11 days before the games.
All the sport that’s fit to watch.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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