Tess Arbez

French-Irish skier, Tess Arbez was only 20 when she made her Olympic debut in PyeongChang in 2018.

She went on to make history when she became the first Irishwoman to compete in a speed race at the Olympics at Beijing 2022.

Tess's maternal grandfather was from Carlow and lived in Blackrock in Dublin and her mother Marguerite lived in England before her parents moved to France.