Fourth time's a charm for Comerford in Winter Olympic quest

The 29-year-old is one of just four athletes who will be representing Ireland at the Games in northern Italy.

ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE: Team Ireland alpine skiier Cormac Comerford in Piazza Walther. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

If at first you don’t succeed? See, the thing is, Cormac Comerford actually did succeed the first time he qualified for the Winter Olympics. And the second time, and then the third. It’s only now, at the fourth time of asking, that he actually gets to go.

Sochi in 2014? He hit the minimum standard. Pyeongchang four years later? He made the minimum standard. Beijing last time out. He made the minimum standard. So, the obvious question is why Milan-Cortina next month will be his first Games.