Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet controversy remains to be stirring in Milan and Cortina whereas Workforce GB search for their first medal of the Winter Olympics
Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet has been one of the crucial contentious moments of the Winter Olympics (Picture: Getty)
It is solely day seven of the Winter Olympics however there has already been an enormous quantity of drama. The IOC’s determination to forbid Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing on the video games in Milan and Cortina has invoked fury throughout the entire competitors.
The Ukrainian was advised he’s not allowed to put on his helmet, which has been adorned with the faces of a number of Ukrainian athletes who’ve been killed because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Initially, his complete accreditation was stripped from him, however IOC president Kirsty Coventry instructed a U-turn to be made, which means Heraskevych is allowed to stay in Milan and Cortina, however not compete. As his household and staff come to phrases with the information, Workforce GB’s seek for a medal on the video games is constant. For any and all updates on the Winter Olympics, stick with us at Categorical Sport.
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Heavy-favourite Ilia Malinin completed eighth within the remaining of the boys’s single skating.
Regardless of his most fierce challengers previous his time on the ice, giving him what ought to have been a transparent pathway to at the least a podium place, the 21-year-old suffered a variety of excessive profile errors below immense strain. Because of falling twice, Malinin tallied a complete of 264.49 – his lowest free skate rating in years.
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Yarnold on Weston
Two-time Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold has heaped reward on Weston’s dominant efficiency.
She mentioned: “Each single one of many 4 runs had been absolute perfection. Extremely spectacular from Matt Weston.
“What stands out for me is each time Matt Weston stood initially block he was wanting down the observe, he excelled, he accelerated, he was so centered. I actually cannot discover the phrases to explain how extremely impressed I’m together with his efficiency.”
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Weston on gold
Chatting with BBC Sport afterwards, he mentioned: “It means every thing. It means a hell of rather a lot to me personally, I’ve labored so exhausting for this. However everybody again residence – my fiance, my household, my pals, everybody who has sacrificed every thing for this. I’ve missed funerals, birthdays, every thing for this second. It feels wonderful.
“Even should you’re not a part of my shut circle, should you play the nationwide lottery you’re supporting me as properly so thanks a lot. Hopefully I did you proud!”
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Gold for Weston!!!
There we go! A dominant efficiency from Matt Weston who claims staff GB’s first medal of those Olympics – and it is gold!
week in the past20:57 Isaac Seelochan
Weston up subsequent…
Right here we go. Matt Weston is in pole place to safe gold and staff GB’s first medal of those video games.
He would additionally turn out to be the primary British man to win Olympic skeleton gold.
It is in his arms. Can he deal with the strain?
week in the past20:44 Isaac Seelochan
Britain’s Wyatt secures high 10 end
Matt Weston is not the one Brit in motion this night.
Marcus Wyatt has simply completed on a excessive together with his quickest run of 56.24. It means he finishes with a remaining time of three:45.77 and ensures himself a top-10 end.
He will not win a medal, however one thing to construct on earlier than the subsequent video games.
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Two-time Olympic bobsledder John Jackson has defined to BBC One how Matt Weston will probably be making ready for his large second.
He mentioned: “I feel Matt [Weston] will do the issues that he must do. A number of the athletes which were down have already got had significantly better runs.
“The circumstances have modified. It is now about how the athletes change and adapt to the brand new circumstances on their sleds.
“It should be a very good competitors. Three athletes in competition for bronze however everybody needs to be excellent, there is no rooms for errors.”
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Remaining skeleton warmth about to start
The ultimate males’s skeleton warmth is about to start with staff GB’s Matt Weston in gold medal place.
It might be GB’s first medal of this yr’s Winter Olympics.
They’re going to be entering into reverse order so Weston because the chief will go final.
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The way it stands
Matt Weston is in pole place for gold and GB’s first medal of those video games!
Under is the way it stands with these in medal competition going into the ultimate warmth…
Matt Weston (Nice Britain) – 2:47.72 Axel Jungk (Germany) – 2:48.11 (+0.39) Christopher Grotheer (Germany) – 2:48.47 (+0.75) Wenhao Chen (China) – 2:48.64 (+0.92) Amedeo Bagnis (Italy) – 2:48.67 (+0.95)
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Matt Weston’s general time is 2:47.72 after the third warmth! He pumps each arms and roars after a powerful run.
Two-time Olympic bobsledder John Jackson appeared to love it on BBC One.
He mentioned: “Excellent run, nice push to begin it off. You may see he hardly strikes on the sled. Actually, actually high quality sliding from Matt. Each time he is been down the observe he is set a report.”
His nearest competitor, Axel Jungk, is +0.39 again after run three. It appears promising for the Brit.
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Males’s skeleton underway
The boys’s skeleton is underway with Weston first down the observe. Under is a reminder of the place we stand going into it…
Matt Weston (Nice Britain) – 1:52.09 Axel Jungk (Germany) – 1:52.39 (+0.30) Christopher Grotheer (Germany) – 1:52.55 (+0.46) Wenhao Chen (China) – 1:52.68 (+0.59) Amedeo Bagnis (Italy) – 1:52.75 (+0.66) Felix Keisinger (Germany) – 1:52.97 (+0.88) Marcus Wyatt (Nice Britain) – 1:53.21 (+1.12) Zheng Yin (China), Seunggi Jung (South Korea), Qinwei Lin (China) – all 1:53.22 (+1.13) week in the past18:26 Isaac Seelochan
What Weston has mentioned
Matt Weston has provided an perception into his mindset forward of the boys’s skeleton this night.
He mentioned: “I’ve taught myself to like the strain and love the expectation I’ve on my shoulders.
“I did not prefer it once I first had success, however now I’ve turned it into fireplace that I can exit and provides my finest.”
(Picture: Getty) week in the past17:48 Isaac Seelochan
GB going for gold
Nice Britain’s Matt Weston will probably be going for gold within the males’s skeleton finale from 6:30pm UK time.
He ended the primary day of competitors with a 0.3-second benefit on the high of the leaderboard. His teammate Marcus Wyatt is in seventh.
Will he declare GB’s first medal of those video games?
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Ukranian attraction rejected
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is not going to compete on the Winter Olympics after the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) dismissed his attraction to put on a helmet depicting photographs of athletes killed throughout Russia’s invasion of his residence nation.
Heraskevych wore the helmet throughout coaching periods this week and refused to again down after being requested to not put on it. He was subsequently banned by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) earlier than the primary warmth of the boys’s skeleton on Thursday and his attraction has now been rejected.
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Choose accused of ‘rigging’ end result
A choose on the Winter Olympics has been accused of manipulating the determine skating outcomes to make sure a gold medal for her nation. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron, representing France, clinched gold with an general rating of 225.82. The duo garnered simply 1.43 factors greater than Workforce USA pairing Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
Nonetheless, the end result has been mired in controversy after the scores of French choose Jezabel Dabouis emerged on-line. Within the ice dance section of determine skating, the partnered skaters are required to carry out two distinct routines over two days: the rhythm dance and the free dance. Chock and Bates, having gained three consecutive world championships in the identical occasion, had been the favourites in Milan.
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Tabby Stoecker’s run in warmth one of many girls’s skeleton was the third quickest of the sphere and simply 0.18 seconds behind the chief, Janine Flock. Workforce GB athletes make up three of the highest ten, with Freya Tarbit eighth and Amelia Coltman in tenth, each above world champion Kimberley Bos.
Tabby Stoecker gained a silver medal on the European Championships in January, which Kim Meylemans gained (Picture: Getty) week in the past15:30 Matthew Abbott
Workforce GB girls lose second spherical robin curling match
Workforce GB’s girls’s curling staff are nonetheless ready for his or her first win of the spherical robin after being crushed by the Republic of Korea this afternoon, who gained with two ends to spare. They referred to as it quits whereas trailing 9-3 after the eighth finish.
It was all even halfway by means of the match, however Korea made it 6-3 after six and doubled their benefit within the seventh and eighth ends. GB additionally misplaced 7-4 to China yesterday night, however are again out on the ice very first thing tomorrow morning in opposition to Canada, who’ve break up their opening two video games, profitable 1-4 over Denmark earlier than simply shedding 7-5 to the USA.
The reigning Olympic girls’s curling champions have gotten off to the worst potential title defence (Picture: Getty) week in the past15:00 Matthew Abbott
Extra biathlon glory for France after staff occasion gold
Quentin Fillon Maillet has gained two gold medals on the similar Video games for a second straight Olympics after including a males’s 10km dash biathlon title to his blended relay glory.
The Frenchman additionally gained the 12.5 km pursuit and 20 km particular person in Beijing. Nonetheless, he improved on Silver from 4 years in the past after beating Norwegian Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen and Sturla Holm Laegreid.
Quentin Fillon Maillet now has seven medals throughout the Winter Olympics in Beijing and Northern Italy (Picture: Getty)
Josie Baff is the brand new girls’s snowboard cross Olympic champion, six years after profitable the Youth model of the occasion in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Aussie was additionally a World silver medalist three years in the past, however has now gone one higher by beating the Czech Republic’s Eva Adamczykova and Italy’s Michela Moioli.
Gold medalist Baff and silver medalist Adamczykova had been in the identical quarter-final as GB’s Bankes (Picture: Getty) week in the past14:00 Matthew Abbott
Charlotte Bankes pissed off with quarter-final exit
Charlotte Bankes spoke emotionally to the BBC after her quarter-final exit.
I am misplaced, to be sincere. I really feel like I’ve executed precisely the identical factor I did 4 years in the past, which is irritating as a result of we have labored extremely exhausting to enhance since then.
I have been fighting the observe all week, to be sincere, however we thought we would discovered options. I actually needed this one, however too many errors, and I did not make the precise selections. I knew it was going to be a good battle, and I simply did not pull it off.
I am usually good at making the precise selections, and the overtakes. I made a very good begin, till I made a mistake which killed my pace. I ended up within the mistaken locations and did not handle to search out house. It is a powerful one to swallow.
Sorry. I hoped to placed on a greater present, nevertheless it did not work out immediately. It may be merciless. We’ll re-group for Sunday (for the blended staff occasion) and hopefully placed on a greater present.
week in the past13:30 Matthew Abbott
Workforce GB medal hope out in snowboard cross quarter-finals
Charlotte Bankes is out within the quarter-finals of the ladies’s snowboard cross competitors for a second consecutive Winter Olympics. She completed fourth in her warmth, behind the Czech Republic’s Eva Adamczykova, Josie Baff of Australia and Switzerland’s Sina Siegenthaler, the latter of whom blocked her off on the ultimate straight.
Charlotte Bankes was the primary British snowboarder to win on the FIS Snowboard World Championships (Picture: Getty) week in the past13:07 Patrick Austen-Hardy
BBC Reporter has weird alternate with Andrew Musgrave
In his post-race interview with Andrew Musgrave, the BBC journalist mentioned: “I don’t assume our viewers would thoughts me telling them, however we needed to delay this interview so you would relieve your self.
“It’s taken rather a lot out of you this week hasn’t it this race and also you’re 35. Speak us by means of what it’s taken out of you to get to the end immediately.
Musgrove replied: “You imply vomit, you don’t imply the rest do you? It gave the impression of I wanted to make a journey to the bathroom there. When it’s brief and exhausting like this you get such excessive ranges of lactic acid.
“The acid within the legs messes together with your digestive system, so I needed to go for a fast vomit there. I’ve had a little bit of water and now I really feel good once more.”
(Picture: Getty) week in the past12:33 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Musgrave’s response to lacking out on a medal
After ending sixth within the 10km skiathlon, Andrew Musgrave mentioned: “It was good. I used to be nonetheless crushed by too many Norwegians.
“The blokes within the wax cabin did an excellent good job with the skis. I felt like I went out and did the primary two laps tremendous good, every thing went to plan.
“It’s actually exhausting to have a reasonably managed opening. With 2.5km left, I mentioned, ‘It’s time for me to maneuver up and put myself up for a medal.’ I feel I went just a little bit too quick because the final two hills had been so exhausting and I misplaced a ridiculous period of time.
“However I used to be by no means going to be within the combat for a medal anyway. I maybe ought to have been within the fourth spot. However, fourth or sixth, it’s not an enormous distinction if I’m not getting a medal.”
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What’s on the horizon on day seven
Here’s a reminder of what’s nonetheless to come back on day seven.
12:30 – Snowboarding: Ladies’s snowboard cross 13:00 – Males’s biathlon 10km dash 13:05 – Curling: Ladies’s spherical robin (together with Nice Britain v Korea) 15:00 – Skeleton: Ladies’s heats one and two 15:40 – Ice hockey: Ladies’s quarter-finals 18:00 – Determine skating: Males – free skate 18:30 – Skeleton: Males’s heats three and 4 18:30 – Snowboard: Males’s halfpipe remaining
Matt Weston may turn out to be a gold medallist for Workforce GB (Picture: Getty)
Andrew Musgrave made extra British Winter Olympic historical past together with his efficiency within the males’s 10km skiathlon. Sadly, he fell simply in need of profitable a medal.
At one stage, he was within the silver medal place, however Frenchman Mathis Desloges and Norwegian trio Einar Hedegart, Harald Oestberg Amundsen and Martin Loewstroem completed above Musgrave, as Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo took the gold as soon as once more.
Nonetheless, Musgrave’s sixth positioned end is the most effective any British athlete has put up within the occasion.
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Andrew Musgrave near a medal
Andrew Musgrave completed seventh within the skiathlon in 2018, Britain’s finest ever end within the Winter Olympics.
Nonetheless, he did even higher this yr, clocking a really spectacular 21 minutes 6.3 seconds.
It is now a ready recreation to see if it is ok for a medal. He is at present within the bronze medal place.
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Bobby Lammie response to males’s curling defeat
Chatting with BBC Sport after Workforce GB Males’s curling staff misplaced to hosts Italy, Bobby Lammie mentioned: “It is disappointing any time we lose, we need to win all of our video games nevertheless it was unlucky within the first finish.
“We confirmed the fireplace we have now as a staff and got here again at them. We made it exhausting work for them, which was our objective after that 4. We almost obtained there.”
Workforce-mate Hammy McMillan added: “We’re gutted. As a staff, we performed a very good first finish however, sadly, we misplaced.
“We had to ensure we dug deep and we all know what we’re able to. We performed 9 actually good ends and managed it from there, we simply could not do sufficient.”
Workforce GB have misplaced 9-7 to Italy within the males’s curling. Bruce Mouat, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and Grant Hardie had been crushed couldn’t get the higher of the hosts.
The Scottish quartet had crushed China and Sweden within the earlier matches, however made life exhausting for themselves within the opening finish in opposition to the Italians. Whereas having the hammer, a mistake from Mouat resulted in Italy being gifted 4 by the GB quartet.
Britain fought again on a number of events, however Italy made use of the hammer within the tenth finish, taking two factors to safe a 9-7 triumph.
(Picture: Getty) week in the past10:16 Patrick Austen-Hardy
A reminder in regards to the Ukrainian helmet drama
One of many tales of the Winter Olympics to this point has been the IOC’s determination to ban Ukrainian ace Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing. The skeleton star wore a helmet emblazoned with the faces of Ukrainian athletes who’ve been killed throughout Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Nonetheless, the IOC forbayed him from sporting it, saying it goes in opposition to the Olympic constitution. At one stage, he was anticipated to be kicked out of the Olympic village, till IOC president Kirsty Coventry persuaded the IOC chair to reinstate his accreditation.
Nonetheless, he’s nonetheless not allowed to compete within the video games, regardless of being recognized as a medal contender in his occasion.
(Picture: Getty) week in the past09:57 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Workforce GB undergo new setback after nice response
After dropping 4 factors on the opening finish, whereas holding the Hammer, Workforce GB’s males’s curling staff appeared to be in hassle in opposition to the Italians. Nonetheless, they fought again to convey the rating again to 5-4.
Nonetheless, Italy have gotten again into the ascendency by selecting up two factors within the newest finish. GB are actually trailing them 7-4.
An extended strategy to go but, however issues might want to change rapidly once more.
week in the past09:33 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Charlotte Bankes ensures she’s nonetheless in medal competition
Snowboard star Charlotte Bankes put in a strong opening show in her first seeding run. The four-time Olympian completed eighth out of the 32 athletes within the competitors to go, clocking a time of 14.31 seconds.
It is a time which needs to be sufficient to safe her a spot throughout the high 20 seeds, earlier than the knockout rounds.
(Picture: Getty) week in the past09:24 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Different Workforce GB potential medallists
Andrew Musgrave, Joe Davies, and James Clugnet will probably be competing within the males’s 10km interval begin free, who will all be competing from 10.45am.
In the meantime, Jacques Jeffries will even be making their return within the biathlon for the boys’s 10km dash from 1pm. He made his Olympic debut within the males’s 20km on Tuesday.
Snowboarding star Charlotte Bankes, recent off recovering from a collar bone harm and profitable her first World Cup occasion of the yr in January, will even be in motion within the snowboard cross from 9am. If she will get by means of, she is going to compete within the remaining this afternoon at round 1.41pm.
week in the past09:03 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Lindsey Vonn’s harm ‘like ones seen in visitors accidents’
Lindsey Vonn’s harm has been in comparison with ones normally seen in visitors accidents. Knee specialist Dr. Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, primarily based in France, mentioned: “For a high-level athlete, that is virtually the worst harm.
“It requires fixed monitoring, day after day, and it is inconceivable to make a prognosis two or three days after the harm. To totally perceive the seriousness of the scenario, it is essential to grasp that this sort of fracture is especially seen in highway visitors accidents, significantly amongst motorcyclists.
“And immediately, nobody can say for positive that it will not have very long-term penalties.”
French surgeon, Nicolas Baudrier, additionally advised L’Equipe: “From what we are able to see within the skier’s posts and images, these are very severe accidents that required the appliance of an exterior fixator.
“There have been in all probability a number of bone fragments (comminuted fracture). With potential pores and skin, nerve, or muscle harm, growing the severity of the harm.”
Lindsey Vonn has been warned retaining her leg is the first objective of her subsequent therapy. The alpine skier fractured her leg after crashing in her alpine snowboarding occasion, not lengthy after rupturing her ACL earlier than the Winter Olympics.
She has since undergone two surgical procedures after struggling a posh tibia fracture. Commenting on her harm, orthopedic professional knee specialist in Lyon, Dr Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet warned amputation isn’t an impossibility.
He advised RMC Sport: “The timeline is kind of unpredictable. It is going to be months earlier than she will be able to stroll usually once more.
“Her objective now’s firstly to maintain her leg and have the ability to stroll. I feel we’re not but on the stage of returning to high-level snowboarding. We’re not there but, however some accidents like hers can finish in amputation.”
(Picture: Getty) week in the past08:32 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Workforce GB’s skeleton medal hopefuls
Workforce GB have the chance to select up 4 medals on day seven in Milan and Cortina. Skeleton star Matt Weston is the most probably to finish up on the rostrum immediately.
He will probably be competing for gold within the remaining this night, as will Marcus Wyatt. Nonetheless, Weston is the heavy favorite and leads the standings after placing collectively two runs with a mixed time of 1:52.09.
Within the girls’s skeleton this afternoon, Tabby Stoecker, Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman are all in motion. All eyes will probably be on Stoecker after she memorably turned the primary British girl since 2015 to win an general skeleton World Cup medal when she gained the bronze.
(Picture: Getty) week in the past08:21 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Workforce GB stars take to the sheet
Proper now, Workforce GB’s males’s curling staff are in motion in opposition to Italy. They’re dealing with the Italians within the Males’s Spherical Robin Session 3.
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan Jr and Bobby Lammie shocked Sweden yesterday and will probably be trying to keep it up their momentum.
Nonetheless, they have off to the worst potential begin as they shipped 4 factors to the Italians, regardless of holding the Hammer. They’ll want an enormous comeback.
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8am
– Bobsleigh – 2-man official coaching
– Nordic mixed – Massive hill official coaching
8.05am
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 3 – Sheet A – Canada vs USA
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 3 – Sheet B – GREAT BRITAIN vs Italy
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 3 – Sheet C – China vs Norway
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 3 – Sheet D – Switzerland vs Czechia
9am
– Snowboard – girls’s SBZ Seeding Run 1
9.55am
– Snowboard – girls’s SBX Seeding Run 2
10.45am
– Bobsleigh – girls’s monobob official coaching
– Cross-Nation Snowboarding – Males’s 10am interval begin free
11.10am
– Ice Hockey – Males’s Prelim. Spherical – Group B – Italy vs Slovakia
12.30pm
– Snowboard – girls’s snowboard cross 1/8 finals
1pm
– Biathlon – males’s 10km dash
1.03pm
– Snowboard – girls’s snowboard cross quarter-finals
1.05pm
– Curling – girls’s spherical robin session 3 – Sheet A – Denmark vs Sweden
– Curling – girls’s spherical robin session 3 – Sheet B – China vs Switzerland
– Curling – girls’s spherical robin session 3 – Sheet C – USA vs Canada
– Curling – girls’s spherical robin session 3 – Sheet D – GREAT BRITAIN vs South Korea
1.24pm – girls’s snowboard cross semi-finals
1.41pm – girls’s snowboard cross remaining
3pm
– Skeleton – girls’s warmth 1
– Speek skating – males’s 10000m
3.40pm
– Ice Hockey – males’s preliminary spherical – Group A – France vs Czechia
– Ice Hockey – girls’s Play-pffs quarter-finals – Czechia vs Sweden
4.48pm
– Ladies’s Warmth 2
5.30pm
– Ski Leaping – Males’s LH – Official Coaching 2
6pm
– Determine Skating – Males’s single skating – free skating
6.05pm
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 4 – Sheet A Switzerland vs China
– Curling Males’s Spherical Robin Session 4 – Sheet B – Czechia vs Norway
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 4 – Sheet C – Germany vs Italy
– Curling – Males’s Spherical Robin Session 4 – Sheet D – Canada vs Sweden
6.30pm
– Skeleton Males’s Warmth 3
– Snowboard males’s snowboard halfpipe
8.05pm
– Skeleton – Males’s Warmth 4
8.10pm
– Ice Hockey – Males’s Preliminary Spherical – Group A – Canada vs Switzerland
– Ice Hockey – Ladies’s Play-off quarter-finals – USA vs Italy
week in the past07:04 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Workforce GB’s hunt for a medal continues
Three days in the past, the nation was left in agony after Kirsty Muir got here so near selecting up Workforce GB’s first medal of this yr’s Winter Olympics. The Scottish star completed fourth within the freestyle snowboarding girls’s slopestyle remaining, ending simply 0.41 factors behind Canada’s Megan Oldham.
Day six proved to be one other difficult day for Workforce GB.
Skeleton star Matt Weston has established himself because the one to beat, recording two observe data within the opening heats. He would be the favorite this night, whereas Workforce GB team-mate Christopher Grotheer will probably be threatening to get on the rostrum as different GB stars Marcus Wyatt will even be hoping to make a late sprint.
Freestyle skier Mateo Jeannesson battled by means of harm to finish their occasion, however couldn’t get previous the qualifying spherical, whereas Anna Pryce’s twenty fourth positioned end within the girls’s 10km interval cross-country snowboarding occasion was Britain’s finest ever end result within the occasion.
Within the snowboarding, it was extra frustration for Workforce GB as Huw Nightingale couldn’t progress into the quarter-finals, clocking the tenth quickest time within the seeding runs.
Nonetheless, issues seemed up within the curling. Workforce Mouat overcame Curling heavyweights Sweden, who beat them within the Winter Olympics remaining 4 years in the past. Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan Jr and Bobby Lammie made it eight wins out of 10 since their Olympic heartbreak all these years in the past.
Within the girls’s curling Sophie Jackson, Sophie Sinclair, Jen Dodds and Rebecca Morrison had been crushed by China 7-4.
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week in the past06:48 Patrick Austen-Hardy
A recap of yesterday’s occasions
Yesterday, Italy loved a historic day within the Winter Olympics. Federica Brignone gained gold within the Ladies’s Tremendous-G to turn out to be the oldest Olympic champion within the occasion at 35. Francesca Lollobrigida additionally secured a second gold medal of those video games within the pace skating.
As well as, Arianna Fontana picked up the silver within the 500m brief observe, her thirteenth Olympic medal of her profession. She is now tied with Edoardo Mangiarotti as probably the most profitable and adorned Italian athlete in historical past.
Furthermore, snowboarding star Chloe Kim noticed her hopes of profitable a 3rd consecutive Olympic gold medal within the girls’s snowboard halfpipe be dashed by 17-year-old expertise Choi Gaon.
There was additionally loads of motion within the ice hockey with the opening matches being performed, together with Workforce USA’s dominant victory over Latvia. In the meantime, the curling noticed an early upset as Sweden misplaced their opening match.
(Picture: Getty) week in the past06:41 Patrick Austen-Hardy
Welcome to immediately’s Winter Olympics weblog
Welcome to tonight’s Winter Olympics weblog with Categorical Sport. It appears set to be one other dramatic day in Milan and Cortina.
Whether or not it is on the ice, the slopes or the tracks, Categorical Sport will probably be with you each step of the way in which.
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