Paul Slane competed in both the 100 kilometres team time trial and the men’s road race at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, finishing in the peloton 35 seconds behind winner Fabio Casartelli of Italy in the road race.

From Dublin, Slane was one of Ireland’s leading cyclists of the early 1990s, having won the Irish road race title in 1989 and 1991 and also finished second in the mountain classification in the professional Nissan Classic.

He was one of the early selections for the Barcelona cycle alongside Mark Kane and Kevin Kimmage, having impressed team manager Alasdair MacLennan with his performances in 1991. He was part of the team time trial quartet with Kane, Henry, Kimmage and Power, and in the road race was prominent in the closing stages before a crash in the final few hundred metres affected the Irish riders.