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PyeongChang 2018: Day 12 in Review

Team Muirhead will contest a medal match at PyeongChang 2018 after qualifying for the curling semi-finals, while Kyle Smith’s rink will need to navigate a tie-breaker with Switzerland in order to keep their Olympic hopes alive. Eve Muirhead’s Team beats world champions Canada to reach curling semi-finals Team Smith defeated by USA and now face

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 11 in Review

Mica McNeill and Mica Moore sit sixth in the women’s bobsleigh standings at the halfway point while it was another very good day for Great Britain’s curling rinks. Bobsleigh’s Micas are just 0.16 off a medal in sixth ahead of the final two runs at the Olympic Sliding Centre Big wins for Team GB’s curling

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 9 in Review

James Woods comes within one place of a medal in a high quality men’s ski slopestyle final while Brad Hall and Joel Fearon are well placed in the bobsleigh two-man event and there’s a win for Team Smith in the curling. James Woods finishes fourth in the men’s slopestyle final, 1.40 points off a medal

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 8 in Review

Medals for Lizzy Yarnold, Laura Deas and Izzy Atkin ensured Team GB enjoyed their most successful ever day at an Olympic Winter Games. Yarnold retains her skeleton title to become the most successful ever British Winter Olympian Deas joins her on the podium with bronze Izzy Atkin wins Team GB’s second medal in PyeongChang with

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Sensational Saturday as Lizzy Yarnold wins gold and Laura Deas bags bronze

Lizzy Yarnold made history as she defended her Winter Olympic Games title and Laura Deas bagged a brilliant bronze during a sensational Saturday for Team GB’s skeleton racers at PyeongChang 2018. Yarnold, who trains at the University of Bath with the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA), went into the final run two-hundredths of a

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 7 in Review

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

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 6 in Review

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

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 5 in Review

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

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PyeongChang 2018: Day 4 in Review

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

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Training group of champions helps slider Jackie Narracott

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

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