Team Ireland's Olympic Games schedule begins today, with the men's sevens rugby team in action.
They play South Africa at the Stade de France from half four, before a meeting with Japan at 8pm.
The football competition also begins later, with World Cup holders Argentina among the sides in action.
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Show-jumper Bertram Allen has been ruled out of the Olympic Games.
His horse Pacino Amiro has picked up a minor injury and won’t be able to compete in Paris.
Allen and Pacino Amiro were selected as alternates for the showjumping team, and a replacement will be named tomorrow.
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Britain's joint-most decorated female Olympian, Charlotte Dujardin (pr: doo-zhar-dan), has been provisionally suspended by equestrian's governing body.
She'd already pulled out of the Olympics, saying she was "deeply ashamed", after a video emerged which the F-E-I says shows "conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare".
