Team Ireland at the Winter Olympics

From the small town of Vetraz Monthoux in France’s Haute Savoie, close to the Swiss border, to the tiny island municipality of Leka on the coast of middle Norway, the Irish team of five athletes for the 2018 Winter Olympics certainly have varied backgrounds.

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Seamus O’Connor
Event: Snowboarding
Has already competed for Ireland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the men’s halfpipe and men’s slopestyle events, at age 16 the youngest competitor in those events. Finished 10th in the men’s Snowboard Slopestyle 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria. He got into snowboarding first through skiing and started snowboarding at the age of four. A keen traveller, his mother is Russian and father is Irish/English, also finished 2nd in the halfpipe competition at the 2015 Burton High Fives in Wanaka, new Zealand.
First in action: Tuesday, 13 February

Thu Feb 8 2018 - 16:28

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