Every athlete has their own different journey to the Winter Olympics. Ben Lynch can trace his trail to Milano Cortina back to several turning points in his young life, one of which might just as easily have directed him towards rowing for Ireland.
If it wasn’t for that old trampoline in the back garden.
Because Lynch is now entirely focused on skiing down a giant halfpipe of ice while performing several dizzying and dazzling tricks along the way. The halfpipe event in freestyle skiing has its roots in skateboarding, and the sport has inherited plenty of that skater attitude too.
At 23, Lynch will be making his Winter Olympics debut. That journey began for real when his parents moved from Dublin to Vancouver, when he was two.
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