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Team Announcement FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - February 4th - 17th 2019 : Are (SWE)  

The Team for Sweden are Tess Arbez, Cormac Comerford and Kieran Norris.

So proud and honoured to be part of Team Ireland heading off to the Alpine Skiing World Championships in beautiful Are, Sweden. My third World Championships, can't wait!

Time to reflect on the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang: an article which can be found on the Olympic Federation of Ireland website at:

http://www.olympics.ie/news/17621-reflecting-on-the-winter-olympics-2018.html

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Back from the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang it is already time to think about the next season.

A complete season of racing at an international level is very costly and I am running on a very tight budget.

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Followed up on my two podiums in GS (3rd and 1st) with two podiums in Slalom (3rd and 2nd). Four podiums in four days.

Back on European snow with two podium finishes in two days: 1st and 3rd in the FIS C Giant Slaloms in St Gervais.

Goodbye PyeongChang

Thank you for everything it was a dream!

Several really nice articles have come out in the press this week on Team Ireland's Winter Olympic journey. Very appreciated coverage for Alpine skiing in Ireland!

As my teammate Pat McMillan says: "The future looks bright for Irish skiing":

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/irish-skier-tess-arbez-brings-12023660

https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/olympics/patrick-mcmillan-and-tess-arbez-excel-in-brilliant-day-for-irish-at-winter-olympics-36606619.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/winter-olympics-arbez-and-mcmillan-build-on-games-debut-1.3394599

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/2195145/irish-skiing-duo-tess-arbez-and-pat-mcmillan-finish-on-a-high-in-pyeongchang/

https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/olympics/irish-news/the-future-looks-bright-for-irish-skiing-mcmillan-36613364.html

http://outsider.ie/latest/ireland-winter-olympics/

All pumped up by the excitement of the Giant Slalom on Thursday my second and final Olympic race was the slalom Friday on the same course in Yongpyong. Happy with my 46th place, moving up 15 places in the ranks! 

After my slalom race was also postponed on Wednesday due to high winds on the course my first Olympic race was the GS Thursday. I was very nervous on the first run but happy with my second run on a daunting course, knocking 4 seconds off the time of my first run to finish in 50th place. Officially an Olympian! What could be better than that? Tomorrow the slalom! Éirinn go Brách!

Racing day today but the wind won- the giant slalom will take place on Thursday! Let's go!

So proud to parade yesterday behind our Team Ireland flagbearer Seamus O'Connor with teammates Bubba Newby Thomas Westgard and Pat McMillan. The show was extraordinary- packed with technology and poetry..

A lovely article by Cliona Foley in the Irish Times retracing my journey to PyeongChang 2018:

https://t.co/VmKA3yJNFY?ssr=true

Well winter is certainly here! With temperatures as low as -19°C it is pretty cool up in Yongpyong but keeping warm with the hand warmers kindly provided by Olympic village aids.  I am training in Giant slalom on the same course as Mikaela Shiffrin...  just a little slower!

Still feels unreal to be here with all these outstanding athletes!

We arrived yesterday in the Olympic village to a very warm welcome from the Olympic village volunteers and staff. I have already made a few Korean friends!

This morning I had the chance to free-ski on the slope next to the technical alpine course in Yongpyong resort- very steep and well prepared slopes. The snow is amazing!

Huge thanks to all who have believed in me and made this incredible journey possible: my family, my coaches, the Olympic Council of Ireland and Snowsports Association of Ireland.

This week I travelled to the beautiful Dolomites in Italy to race in Downhill and SuperG in the Citizen World Cup races in Passo San Pellegrino. Good fun to be back on the long planks again after a month of cancellations and poor conditions. Happy with my 10th place in Downhill!

Back to training mode in Savoie. Happy to be back on fresh snow after trying to tame the water-injected icy slopes of Kaabdalis.

In the December issue of Stellar Magazine the "My day on a Plate" article features my nutrition programme while in training, cheat meals included!

Thank you Stellar Magazine!

stellar-magazine-tess.pdf (4.13 Mo)