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IRISH SHOW JUMPERS Daniel Coyle and Shane Sweetnam have not been successful at the Olympic show jumping individual final after both riders failed to have a clear run at the Paris games.
Though both riders had good starts on the tough course, with over one-and-a-half metre jumps from the get-go, at the Château de Versailles, their performances fell apart near the end.
The competition has proven tougher as three riders – Germany’s Christian Kukuk, the Netherlands’ Maikel van der Vleuten and Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat – are currently jumping off for gold as all three had clear runs.
Both Irish riders had their runs towards the end of the competition.
This put greater pressure on Coyle. Despite having a near-perfect run at his first-ever Olympics, it toppled on the very last line when his horse, Legacy, hit the rails four times successively. Coyle and Legacy retired at the last fence.
Similarly, Sweetnam had a strong start but the back-to-back jumps on the fourth line proved tough for his horse, James Kann Cruz, who hit the rails on two out of the three jumps.
Coyle and Sweetnam ended up with 16 and 12 penalties, respectively.
Though the disappointing result, Sweetnam and Coyle produced clear runs to book their place in the final of the individual show jumping yesterday – that can’t be taken away.
The42 will bring you the latest breaking stories and sharp analysis on the Olympic Games in Paris today and for the remainder of the games.
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I understand responsibility but what michael nonnan and ffg did by created legislation to allow vulture thifs to own our children’s future is unfortunately part of ffg dna
@Robert Halvey: Noonan is a traitor to the people of Ireland
@Magnificent Mongoose: I agree with you I am a limerick person and back in the day when nonnan was minister for justice he signed off on 3 men for early realise from prison, who had gang raped a girl set fire to the girls hair and used a piece of stick no wonder why the wall street press named him as the best minster of finance, ps I am paraphrasing
@Robert Halvey: it was absolutely criminal and should never have been allowed, not to mention they dont pay a penny in tax and the Irish taxpayer pays nearly a billion euro a year in HAP. a lot of it to these funds. Its crazy
@William Slevin: Accusations of “treason” are something I’m more used to hearing from English people. Also, how come you don’t know who any of our politicians are? Which of them do you imagine was elected “by foreign interests”? What’s “foreign” to you? Where are you from, yourself?
That decision by noonan to give vulture funds carte Blanche was a disaster for this country…..it’s his legacy and it’s shameful……
@David Cotter: He, and FG, has form in abuse of the people.
Particularly the most vulnerable.
The way he treated the victims of the Hepatitis C scandal was despicable.
Completely unintentional I’m sure that these loopholes existed *sarcasm*
@Jessie Pinkman: there are frequent calls for more time to scrutinise legislation yet no TDs spotted these “loopholes” that are now costing us dearly.
@Spanner: TDs are not the people to scrutinise laws to that level.
When is anyone going to do something about:
Rent only apartments built on former Nama owned lands.
So we bailed them out and then they rent the apartments back to us forever.
My gripe on this is it removes the opportunity to have a starter home breaking the home ownership chance for so many who want to own their own place.
I genuinely cannot understand how Pierce and Co don’t pull government up on this farcical mess another one by FFG..
@Vinny Hughes: Well the lands only became Nama lands when they were taken over by Nama, developers/banks owned them before that and were bought for, on average 50% of ” book value ” , then Nama sold them to new developers who in the main raised finance in the private equity market as our banks aren’t in the commercial property lending business anymore.
Cairns for example is a quoted company and keeps back many apartments to let out, and they pay interest on the debt they took on to build , it’s a different model since the crash,
Pearse Doherty seem to fight for the decent reason. I know it’s all PR, but many in sunn feinn should take example, especially at the top
A legal loophole deliberately left there by design, this was not by accident. Banks, Vulture Funds, Developers, Barristers, Judiciary, Legal system & Politicians all part of the Golden Circle in Ireland, one of the most hidden corrupt countries in Europe.
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