{"id":308665,"date":"2026-02-20T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:27:10","slug":"irelands-ben-lynch-finishes-eighth-in-freestyle-skiing-halfpipe-final-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308665\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Ben Lynch finishes eighth in freestyle skiing halfpipe final \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s Ben Lynch has finished eighth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/winter-olympics\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/winter-olympics\/\">Winter Olympics<\/a> final of the freestyle skiing halfpipe, with a top score of 75.00 in the final run, just short of his top score and personal best of 75.75 in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lynch had become the first Irish skier to qualify for a Winter Olympics final after finishing 11th in the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 23-year-old was fourth after the first run despite falling, but his position was more due to others falling also on the first of three runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He improved on his second run, also stumbling, before a clean third run saw him score his best 75.00 and secure an impressive top eight finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Born in Rathmines, Dublin, Lynch moved to Canada aged two and is now based in Calgary, where he trains under coach Rex Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">US skier Alex Ferreira won gold with 93.75, Estonia\u2019s Henry Sildaru won silver with 93.00 and Canada\u2019s Brendan Mackay won bronze with 91.00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Ben Lynch has finished eighth in the Winter Olympics final of the freestyle skiing halfpipe, with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,23196],"class_list":["post-308665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308665","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=308665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}