Ben Lynch saved the best Irish result until last when finishing eighth in Friday’s freestyle skiing halfpipe final
Recapping from the final day of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, which included a historic gold medal victory for the U.S. men's hockey team.
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Ireland's quartet of Winter Olympians will bask in the glow of a job well done today when they return to Dublin after their feats at the Milano-Cortina Games.
Ben Lynch finished eighth in the freestyle skiing halfpipe event.
ANABELLE ZURBAY was pleased with her showing on her Winter Olympics debut. The Team Ireland teenager, 17, finished 48th in the women’s giant slalom in a time of 2:31.70. Zurbay clocked 1:12.82 on
Warner Bros. Discovery reported record-breaking streaming performance for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, with the company posting triple-digit growth across its HBO Max and Discovery+ platforms compared to the Beijing 2022 Games.
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‘You have to risk it in the Olympics’ – Ben Lynch on his first-time trick that secured Irish Winter Olympic history
Just over 1,000 Irish people can call themselves Olympians. Only 36 of those can call themselves Winter Olympians, and yesterday three-time Olympian Thomas Maloney Westgard, Anabelle Zurbay, Cormac Comerford and half-pipe finalist Ben Lynch were given a hero’s welcome to Ireland after Milano-Cortina 2026.
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