In the formative years of his sporting development, rowing was Ben Lynch’s first calling.
His Dubliner dad Kevin was an accomplished oarsman, twice winning the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta, first with Lee Rowing Club and then with Dublin University Boat Club.
Ben’s brother Thomas followed suit; he was part of two victorious Cambridge crews in the famous Oxford-Cambridge boat race on the River Thames.
All four of the Lynch boys would spend time in the boat with their father, but a family move from Ireland to Vancouver introduced Ben to winter sports, and he never looked back.
It was the intense adrenaline rush of freestyle and half-pipe skiing in particular that appealed to Lynch, who says he first…