Two Cork skiers chasing Winter Olympic qualification

There’s a famously difficult move in freestyle skiing called a ‘cork’, a fact that particularly tickles Brendan Newby.

One of a family of five children, he grew up in Orem, south of Park City in Utah — a Mecca for snowboarders and trick skiers — but qualifies to compete for Ireland because he was born in Cork 21 years ago while his father Van spent two years teaching in UCC as a visiting economics professor.

By coincidence, the only other Irish ‘freestyle’ skier chasing Winter Olympic qualification in PyeongChang in February also has Cork roots.