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   Did any one else know we have a bobsleigh team? How in this country would you pick up bobsleighing as a hobby?! 

Olympic Council of Ireland President Pat Hickey insists that the Irish bobsleigh team will definitely compete in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The bobsleigh team of Aoife Hoey and Claire Bergin have already seen Australia threaten their place in Vancouver with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and now Brazil are demanding to be included in the event, with their appeal.
The CAS had already recommended that Ireland's two-man team should retain their place after the Australian legal challenge, adding the Australians as a 21st team in the event.

Brazil launched their appeal on the back of Australia's success, but Hickey is convinced that the Irish team's participation will not be affected.
'The President and the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee took the decision to add an extra-team (Australia) and in the wording they confirmed that both Australia and Ireland were definitely now in the Olympic games,' Hickey told RT� this morning.
'(Brazil's) arguments now seem to be academic to me because the Bobsleigh Federation of Brazil should have had their first appeal to the International Bobsleigh Federation, but they're jumping straight to the CAS, so I think it will be thrown out on that basis'.