Tricky and Icy Conditions Cut Austin’s Day Short at the Youth Olympics Icy conditions and a tricky turn resulted in a DNF for Team Ireland’s Emma Austin in the Giant Slalom at the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne today. The Irish Alpine Skier was the 58th starter in the first run, and joined nineteen other […]
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Tomorrow Emma Austin makes her Games debut, competing in the Giant Slalom on day three of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, with the first run starting at 09:00 Irish time. The Giant Slalom is an Alpine Skiing Race, where the athlete negotiates a series of poles and gates that are on the course
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Big Performance in the Alpine Combined Slalom at the Youth Olympics A clean fast slalom run from Team Ireland’s Alpine Skier Matt Ryan saw the seventeen year old jump twenty places in the Alpine Combined today, to finish 25th overall with a time of 1:34.11 at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Fast
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Ryan Finishes 45 in the Super G at the Youth Olympics Team Ireland’s action at the Winter Youth Olympics was kick started by Matt Ryan today, when he finished 45th in the Super G, with a time of 58.7 seconds. Gold went to Swedish skier Adam Hofstedt, Slovenian Rok Azneh took silver, and local interest
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Team Ireland has two athletes competing in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne. While the Games run from the 9 – 22 January, the Irish focus will be solely on the Alpine Skiing where Matt Ryan and Emma Austin will be competing. The Athletes: Matt Ryan Matt Ryan is a seventeen year old Alpine
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Team Ireland is represented by two Alpine athletes, Matt Ryan and Emma Austin at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland 2020. The Opening Ceremony took place on the 9 January, in the newly built ice hockey venue – The Lausanne Vaudoise Arena, in front of a packed house. The Opening Ceremony started with the
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Opening Ceremony for Winter Youth Olympics Tonight at 7pm Local Time Alpine Skier Matt Ryan has been announced as the flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympic Games which takes place this evening in Lausanne, the home of the Olympic movement. Ryan is one of two athletes competing for Team Ireland at
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Two Irish athletes will be setting the pace for a jam packed year of Olympic sport, when they compete for Team Ireland in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland in January. The Lausanne 2020 Games run from the 9 – 22 January, and the Irish interest will be in Alpine Skiing where Matt
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“As a parent part of you is like ‘slow down,’ but you know that’s not the idea, so the other half of you is hoping they can go as fast as they can.” Ken Murphy, father of Ireland’s first world medallist in winter sports, Elle Murphy, described being a parent of an Irish athlete in
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14th February 2019: It was disappointment for Matt Ryan at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina today, with a disqualification in the second run of the Giant Slalom. The sixteen year old who impressed in the Slalom earlier this week, finishing 25th, was in action on the final day of racing
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12th February 2019: Team Ireland’s Matt Ryan has finished 25th out of 104 starters in the Slalom today at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Bosnia and Herzegovina today. Ryan is part of the two person team competing this week, alongside Elle Murphy who finished 40th in the Slalom yesterday. The competition runs
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13th February 2019: Elle Murphy has finished 40th in the Giant Slalom at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Bosnia and Herzegovina today. The seventeen year old improved her placing between the first and second run, finishing with an overall time of 2.28.18 just 11.8 seconds off the winner. The competition runs from
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