Israel Olatunde becomes first ever Irish man in a European 100m final, goes again in final at 9:15pm tonight on RTE news

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1. He ran 10.19s in the heats, only 0.01s off Paul Hession’s 15 year old national record, and finished very strongly against some incredibly strong opposition to finish second in his semi in 10.20s and take the auto qualifier, behind only Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs. Hopefully he smashes that national record in the final.

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3. Update: he finished in 6th in a new national record of 10.17s. Just 0.04s off a medal, great achievement and he’s only 20.

4. How did he get on? Only saw this post now and they’ve moved on to the women’s final

5. G’wan Israel!

6. Great from Olatunde to run 10.17 setting a new national record. Only 20 years old so big things to come. Hopefully 10.10 could come soon

7. Typical of RTÉ showing a shit champions league qualifier while this young lad does his country proud

8. We need to sort out our track and field training recources to allow talent like this to excel

9. I love how diverse our country has become. The fact that we can compete better in athletics now is quite a plus. There seems to be a whole generation of second generation immigrant athletes competing for ireland across all sports so it’ll be interesting to see the change in our sporting heroes across the decades

10. Ran a great race. Going to be class in the next few years.

11. Unreal achievement. He was in the year behind me in secondary school. Super sound lad. Delighted for him!

12. mup Izzy