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Ireland go down to opening hockey defeat against defending champions Belgium
Men’s Hockey Pool B: Belgium 2 Ireland 0 It wasn’t to be three in a row for Ireland in their first Pool A match of the Olympic Games against reigning Olympic champions Belgium. Ireland had twice beaten the gold medallists from Tokyo earlier in the year in …