Team Ireland is gearing up for the Winter Olympics, which are taking place across 13 venues in northern Italy.
Around 2,800 athletes are expected to compete, including four from Ireland.
RTÉ Sports' Eamon Horan is in the resort of Cortina and told Behind the Story what it is like on the ground.
On the Irish athletes themselves, Eamon explained that one of them - Anabelle Zurbay - is the youngest to ever compete in alpine skiing at an Olympics.
"She's only 17 – she’s originally from Minnesota, she moved to the Rockies," he explained.
"She has links to Rosemount and Moate in Co Westmeath - and from what I’m hearing, the Zurbay bandwagon has pulled out and Rosemount and Moate are getting behind her.
"After doing the interview for RTÉ Sports, she had to return to finish her homework because she’s a junior in high school," he said.
Eamon also explains how a German newspaper’s story about allegation of penis injections in ski jumping to improve performance has become a talking point at the opening of the games.
Sport and politics
Assistant lecturer in global business at TU Dublin, Richard Woodward, also joins Fran and Laura to discuss how politics and sport are overlapping.
Several athletes from Russia and Belarus are competing under a neutral flag at the Winter Olympics.
However earlier this week, the presidents of FIFA and the International Olympic Committee signalled they may be open to lifting the ban for future competitions.
"After 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine suddenly, we’re banning Russia – why didn’t we do it in 2014? " Dr Woodward said.
"Are we now going to take the FIFA World Cup away from the United States for deposing the Venezuelan president and threatening Greenland?"
Dr Woodward said international sports organisations "maintain this fiction that sport and politics are separate".
"As soon as you have a situation where athletes are going over borders, you’ve got problems potentially," he said.
Dr Woodward also described how an incident in 1966, where North Korea travelled to England for the World Cup, created a political headache for London.
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