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Lynch faces long ban as 'B' horse sample tests positive
Suspended Olympic show jumper Denis Lynch was last night facing the prospect of a long ban from the sport after a "B" sample for his horse proved positive.
Boxing: Barnes on Euro trail as heroes of Beijing regroup
WITH his Beijing blues fading fast, Belfast's Olympic bronze medallist Paddy Barnes is expected to compete in the European Senior Championships in Liverpool from November 5 to 15.
Time for a change of track
AS a public we can start to educate ourselves properly or keep whinging platitudes on 'Liveline', but whatever happens next, Irish sport doesn't need another glossy report from some overpaid consultancy to learn some valuable lessons from Beijing.
Barnes admits he must 'grow up' after bronze rant
A MUCH-happier Paddy Barnes left the ring at the Workers Gymnasium yesterday, this time treasuring the bronze
More injury woe as Cragg and Fagan fail to finish
IRELAND'S athletics run fizzled out badly in Beijing when Alistair Cragg drop-ped out of the 5,000m final and Martin Fagan pulled up with an Achilles problem in yesterday's marathon.
Heart of gold Egan takes loss on the chin
IF YOU thought your stomach was churning back at home yesterday you should have been ring-side at Beijing's Worker's Gymnasium.
All is not fair in glove war
Maybe our optimism was the fat, little conceit of the story. We thought Kenny Egan of Walkinstown might put a stick in the spokes of the motherland.
As good as gold - Silver star Kenny celebrates
AS the song says, you have to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.
Egan's golden goal foiled by the China syndrome
The thunder of Olympia finally petered out in a charcoal sky above Beijing last night, leaving the outside world to resemble a smudge on someone else's page.
Funding increase reflected in haul of medals
IRELAND'S late triumph in the medals stakes was last night being attributed to the success of boxing's high-performance programme which has benefited from a 55pc funding hike.
Beijing best?
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Columnist Comments
• Wenger puts his finger on the 'wretched truth' behind Olympic success
Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger is not xenophobic -- he has proved that in his long years irrigating English football with the finest skill -- but he was maybe the most damning witness of all amid the fanfare which greeted Great Britain's medal haul in Beijing.
• Egan shines so brightly amid Irish 'flap and fuss'
In time, Beijing will recede to memory, sluicing its traffic back onto gasping streets, re-opening its power-plants, restoring the air to a heavy, brown soup.
