Irish Olympic athletes to wear traditional Aran knitwear at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, which begin on Friday

The Winter Olympics are just over a week away now, and Team Ireland has announced their four athletes to compete at the events in Milano-Cortina, Italy. There’s a mixture of young and old, with three of the four competing in their first-ever Winter Games.

Thomas Maloney Westgaard and Anabelle Zurbay will be the flagbearers for Ireland at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics’ early events continued on day -1 ahead of Friday's opening ceremony. After opening the games on day -2 as the first event to start competitive play, curling continued with wins for the U.

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Great Britain are taking 53 athletes to the Games, with tentative predictions suggesting they expect four to eight medals to be won. The record at one Games is five, in both 2014 and 2018.