It's a big day for the sports-mad Harte family.

While Mickey Harte will be attempting to guide Tyrone to an All-Ireland SFC quarter-final victory over Mayo at Croke Park, his second cousins, twins Conor and David Harte, will be lining out for the Irish hockey team against India in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Cork brothers, who have racked up 359 caps between them, will be part of the first Irish hockey team to compete at an Olympic Games since 1908.

The hockey game tips off at 3pm Irish time, just an hour before the Red Hands - for whom Mickey Harte's nephew Peter is a key performer - and Mayo face off at Croker.

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