2016 Summer Olympics Rio

[moysider]

Barr 4th. Great effort though. Left himself a bit too much to do down the stretch.

[screenexile]

Big PB again you can't really ask much more than that he gave it everything fair play to him!

[AZOffaly]

Jaysus it was close. If it was 410 metres he'd have had bronze at least. If he can sort out the middle 200, he'll be a big player at that event. Great effort.

[JoG2]

Unlucky Barr so close to a medal.

fair play to Thomas Barr, great Olympics for him. New Irish record

[imtommygunn]

4th. Great effort. Really peaked at the right time.

[on the sideline]

Some performance from him. Unlucky not to medal!

[square_ball]

Great effort and unlucky but the way George hamilton is going on you'd think he won the gold medal and broke the world record in the one go.

[JoG2]

Great effort and unlucky but the way George hamilton is going on you'd think he won the gold medal and broke the world record in the one go.

there's no way he lavished more praise on him than Colin and co on the bbc iPlayer !

[bennydorano]

Great effort.

[AZOffaly]

His sister in tears in the studio in RTE. She ran in the 2012 Olympics.

[PW Nally]

Great effort and unlucky but the way George hamilton is going on you'd think he won the gold medal and broke the world record in the one go.

Think he is right to celebrate such a run. So many Irish athletes do well to achieve the Olympic standard and when one is this competitive in an event we have never in my lifetime come close to medaling on the world stage it is to be heralded. Breaking 2 national records in the process shows a guy getting everything out of himself, a true olympian perhaps!

[JoG2]

Great effort and unlucky but the way George hamilton is going on you'd think he won the gold medal and broke the world record in the one go.

Think he is right to celebrate such a run. So many Irish athletes do well to achieve the Olympic standard and when one is this competitive in an event we have never in my lifetime come close to medaling on the world stage it is to be heralded. Breaking 2 national records in the process shows a guy getting everything out of himself, a true olympian perhaps!

the antidote to a disaster of an Olympics for ourselves !

[AZOffaly]

Excellent interview by him as well. His head is screwed on.

[Declan]

Great effort, new national record and comes across as a good lad. Fair play to him

[square_ball]

Great effort and unlucky but the way George hamilton is going on you'd think he won the gold medal and broke the world record in the one go.

Think he is right to celebrate such a run. So many Irish athletes do well to achieve the Olympic standard and when one is this competitive in an event we have never in my lifetime come close to medaling on the world stage it is to be heralded. Breaking 2 national records in the process shows a guy getting everything out of himself, a true olympian perhaps!

Don't get me wrong it's a great run by him and hopefully he can build on that for future championships but just find it a bit hollow that a 4th place is being celebrated by commentators and pundits. The fact that it is in our top 3 moments of the Olympics also speaks volumes.