Team GB claimed its first medal of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games as Dom Parsons won men’s skeleton bronze. The success at the Olympic Sliding Centre could continue tomorrow too with Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas lying in third and fourth at the halfway stage of the women’s event. Dom Parsons is the first
It proved to be a busy day six for Team GB athletes in PyeongChang with five sports contested, including the start of the men’s skeleton competition where Dom Parsons sits in fourth place at the half-way stage. Dom Parsons is just three hundredths of a second off a medal after two runs of the men’s
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
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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