Pretty sad to be honest, that we have an olympic quality track cycling team and no velodrome for them to train (yet, there's one with funding confirmed at least).
"Cycling: The women’s team pursuit qualifier at the National Velodrome has finished, with Ireland missing out on qualification for tomorrow’s round one.
Despite setting a new Irish record, their time of 4:12.447 was only enough to best Japan, leaving them ninth, with a top-eight finish needed to progress.
It ended: 1st – New Zealand, 2nd – USA, 3rd – GB, 4th – Italy, 5th – Germany, 6th – Australia, 7th – France, 8th – Canada, 9th Ireland and 10th – Japan.
To reiterate, Ireland currently doesn’t even have a velodrome, and it’s the first time an Irish women’s team have competed in this event at the Olympics. History-makers."
From:
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2024/08/06/olympics-day-11-live-updates-ireland-irish-showjumping-mageean-kellie-harrington-paris-2024/#38844