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Aug
9
2008
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1:00am Killarney Rowers Beijing Bound: Paul Griffin, Sean Casey and Cathal Moynihan

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) What is it with these geographical clusters of super-rowers!? Following on from our post about the three oarsmen from Northern Ireland off to Beijing, Fiola and Valerie (herself an expert master rower!) let us know about these three from Killarney that are Olympic c[...] Read More »

Aug
8
2008
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12:38pm Howth Yacht Club Member Carries Irish Flag At Olympics Opening Ceremony

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - 28-year-old Ciara Peelo from Malahide in Dublin will carry the Irish flag at the Olympics opening ceremony today. I remember sailing against Ciara when I was just 11 years old in our local sailing club. Look where she got to, fantastic. RTE Report: Sailing [...] Read More »

Aug
5
2008
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1:00am BBC Documentary: From the Bann to Beijing

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Watch out for this documentary on Wednesday night at 10:45pm on BBC 1 Northern Ireland about 3 Northern Ireland oarsmen, all from the one town, on their quest to get to Beijing. For the past 18 months, BBC Sport Northern Ireland’s Season Ticket has been following [...] Read More »

May
8
2008
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2:10am Everest: Olympic Torch Summits Out

UPDATE 2215hrs - Video of torch on summit via Reuters: SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - An incoming report on the news today started like this… EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was lit at the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, the crowning moment of the Beijing Games torch r[...] Read More »

Apr
4
2008
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8:22am K-Capital Cup Mountain Bike Cross Country Series

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) There’s lots of BIG names and internationals being mentioned for Round 3 at this weekend’s K-Capital Cup Mountain Bike Cross Country Series at Djouce Woods in Wicklow. According to Irish Cycling this will be a selection race for an Irish rider to go to B[...] Read More »

Mar
12
2008
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6:12pm Olympic stops climbers on Everest & funding cuts

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Ukclimbing.com are reporting here that the Chinese government are refusing all permits for Everest this year from their side of the mountain (strange to describe ’sides of a mountain’ being an issue not due to climbing difficulty!). They’re also[...] Read More »

Dec
20
2007
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8:06pm Sport Climbing accepted into Olympics

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I don’t usually replicate news from UKclimbing.com, however this one deserves a mention. Sport climbing has been accepted into the Olympics, provisionally at least. Now don’t get all excited and start preparing for 2008, or even 2012 for that matter -[...] Read More »