With weather conditions forcing the cancellation of both the alpine skiing and biathlon, the Team GB spotlight fell on the Gangneung Ice Centre where both the men’s and women’s rinks opened their PyeongChang 2018 campaigns with victories. Kyle Smith’s rink marked their Olympic debut with an opening 6-5 win over Switzerland before losing out to
Elise Christie misses out on a medal in the short track 500m final, Farrell Treacy qualifies for the quarter-finals of the 1000m while at the cross-country skiing, Andrew Young finishes 45th in the individual men’s sprint classic. Elise Christie places fourth in the 500m final after suffering a fall on the final lap Also in
Her training group includes Paralympic, World and Commonwealth champions, while her uncle competed at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Now University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Jackie Narracott is ready to make her own mark on the global multi-sport stage when she takes to the ice for her native Australia at the PyeongChang 2018
Weather watching at PyeongChang 2018 today, with snowboarder Aimee Fuller the only member of Team GB in action. Aimee Fuller finishes 17th – a repeat of her performance in Sochi – in women’s slopestyle. Laura Deas goes quickest in first day of official training at the Olympic Sliding Centre Alex Tilley must wait for Olympic
Day two of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games saw Andrew Musgrave achieved Britain’s best-ever Olympic cross-country skiing result, Adam Rosen and Rupert Staudinger complete their luge campaigns and Aimee Fuller progress to the final of the women’s snowboard slopestyle despite not needing to compete in South Korea. Andrew Musgrave came close to securing Britain’s
Day one of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games sees Elise Christie star in the short track 500m heats, an Olympic best result for Amanda Lightfoot in the biathlon while five athletes make their Games debuts. Elise Christie qualifies for 500m quarter-finals, setting a new Olympic record in the process Amanda Lightfoot matches Emma Fowler’s
Team GB snowboard athlete Katie Ormerod has been ruled out of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games following a severe fracture to her right heel bone. The 20-year-old from Brighouse was due to compete in snowboard slopestyle and snowboard big air and will undergo emergency surgery in the morning. Mike Hay, Team GB Chef de
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will lead Team GB into tomorrow night’s Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games after being selected as Flagbearer today. Yarnold will lead Team GB athletes into the PyeongChang Olympic Stadium where the Opening Ceremony will officially mark the start of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games. Team GB’s 59
The British Olympic Association will take its largest ever delegation to an Olympic Winter Games next month after 59 athletes were officially selected to Team GB for PyeongChang 2018. The 56 who travelled to Sochi four years ago was the previous highest, having grown from 52 at Vancouver 2010. Lake Placid 1932 remains the Games
The British Olympic Association has announced its Ambition Programme for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games with seven young athletes and coaches getting the chance to experience the Winter Olympic environment this February. The Ambition Programme works with the sporting national governing bodies to offer athletes and coaches, who aspire to compete at Beijing 2022,
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