Lily Cooke and Finlay Wilson named as the Team Ireland Flagbearers for the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon 2024 The Team Ireland’s flagbearers for the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon have been named. Alpine Skier Finlay Wilson and Luge athlete Lily Cooke will lead the Irish team into the Gangneung Oval at […]
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TEAM IRELAND AT WINTER YOUTH OLYMPICS – GANGWON 2024 Team Announcement, Event Schedule, How to Follow Tomorrow will see the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon begin, with four athletes competing for Team Ireland across three different disciplines. This is the fourth edition of these games, which are held in the Gangwon region of
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RECIPIENTS OF €200,000 IOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND REVEALED – MILANO CORTINA 2026 Read More »
ADDITIONAL FUNDS ADDED WITH €115,000 DISTRIBUTED ACROSS 16 SPORTS Following an overwhelming response in applications to the Make a Difference athlete fund that was announced by the OFI Athletes’ Commission earlier this year, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has channelled an additional €50,000 directly to athletes. Athletes across sixteen sports were awarded a total amount
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YOUTH MULTI-SPORT EVENT COMES TO A CLOSE Team Ireland’s Ethan Bouchard and Eábha McKenna completed their final event on the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) schedule yesterday, competing well in the Super-G. Both competitions took place on Monte Lussari, just outside Tarvisio, on the same piste as the other Alpine races earlier this week. The
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27 January 2023 Aggressive racing from Team Ireland’s Ethan Bouchard fell short, with a crash in the final gates of the second run in the demanding Giant Slalom (GS) course. The seventeen-year-old Alpine Skier was representing West Cork today at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in Italy. Similar to yesterday’s Girl’s GS,
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WICKLOW SKIER RISES TO OCCASION IN ITALY Team Ireland’s Eábha McKenna returned to the slopes in Tarvisio, Italy to compete in the Girl’s Giant Slalom (GS) event today at the European Youth Olympic Festival. The Wicklow teenager was competing in the Girl’s Giant Slalom where she finished 42nd with a time of 3:02.79. The sixteen-year-old
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PROGRESSIVE RACING FROM PATHWAY ATHLETE AT EYOF IN ITALY 25 January 2023 Despite being one of the youngest athletes competing in Alpine Skiing at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), Wicklow’s Eábha McKenna stepped up in her first major competition, finishing 38th out of 88 starters in the Girl’s Slalom with 1:46.58. The Olympic Federation of Ireland
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“It was freezing, the wind was out. There was snot coming out of his nose but it was frozen! He was like someone who had come out of battle and he absolutely had, just sensational.” Three-time Olympic snowboarder, Seamus O’Connor, has played an integral role in Team Ireland’s Olympic Games, the only Irish athlete to
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This week two Team Ireland athletes begin their Olympic journey, at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Italy. Wicklow born Eábha McKenna, and Ethan Bouchard, with roots in Skibbereen and Bantry, are competing in Alpine Skiing in the northern Italian territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia, in a town called Tarvisio. The EYOF is an
