Sochi 2014

Ireland’s Olympic Winter Games Team arrived back in Ireland and were greeted by family and friends together with press , the Olympic Council of Ireland and Snowsports Association of Ireland officials.

18 year old Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA became the youngest Olympic slalom champion with victory in the women’s event. The world champion made an early mistake during her second run, but recovered well to post a combined time of one minute 44.54 seconds. Marlies Schild took silver, to add to the one she won

So far 25 of the 88 participating countries at the Winter Olympic Games have won medals. Germany head the table at present on Gold medals won (7) with the Netherlands ahead on total medals won (17) .Total number of athletes approximately 2,800, 98 events in 7 sports (15 disciplines). In the London 2012 Summer Games

Sean Greenwood blames his Irish DNA for the inner drive. His mother Sibéal, a fine arts teacher at Surrey’s Kwantlen University College, was born and raised in Galway, on Ireland’s west coast, before she immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s along with two of her sisters.  Though the Athlete Family and friends ticketing programme