{"id":300025,"date":"2026-02-15T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:55:17","slug":"anabelle-zurbay-makes-history-becoming-irelands-youngest-alpine-skiing-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300025\/","title":{"rendered":"ANABELLE ZURBAY MAKES HISTORY, BECOMING IRELAND\u2019S YOUNGEST ALPINE SKIING OLYMPIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tIreland\u2019s youngest-ever Olympic Alpine skier also spoke about managing her nerves on debut,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was definitely very nervous at the start of both runs. But once you\u2019re in the gate, you\u2019ve got to clear your head and go. Otherwise, it\u2019s not going to work. It definitely gives me more confidence, but it\u2019s still the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zurbay, whose maternal grandmother is a McCarthy from Rosemount, just outside Westmeath, will return to action on 18 February when she competes in the Women\u2019s Slalom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomorrow, Cormac Comerford brings his Olympic campaign to a close in Bormio, racing in the Men\u2019s Slalom, his favoured discipline<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.ie\/anabelle-zurbay-makes-history-becoming-irelands-youngest-alpine-skiing-olympian\/mailto:heather@olympicsport.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heather@olympicsport.ie<\/a> for interview requests and for moving images of training, which will be available over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS \u2013 SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alpine Skiing,\u00a0Women\u2019s Giant Slalom, Anabelle Zurbay 48th with a time of 2:31.70 (+18.20), run 1 \u2013 1:12.82, run 2 \u2013 1:18.88.<\/p>\n<p>SCHEDULE DAY 10 \u2013 MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY (All times are Irish times \u2013 Italy is one hour ahead)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">09:00 and 12:30\u00a0Alpine Skiing,\u00a0Men\u2019s Slalom Runs 1 &amp; 2,\u00a0Cormac Comerford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s youngest-ever Olympic Alpine skier also spoke about managing her nerves on debut, \u201cI was definitely very nervous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-300025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}