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Winter Olympics: Banned athlete ‘reinstated’ as Group GB loses attraction

Specific Sport has reside Winter Olympics updates from Milan-Cortina on Thursday, together with the most recent on Lindsey Vonn after her crash, in addition to Group GB information.

Welcome to our reside protection of Day Six on the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Specific Sport will likely be right here all through the morning, afternoon and night in yet one more busy day of sport in Italy.

It is already been a busy morning. Ukrainian’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from the video games after going towards the IOC’s guidelines along with his helmet paying tribute to compatriots killed through the warfare with Russia. On the skeleton route, Group GB’s Matt Weston sits high of the stadnings after two runs with Marcus Wyatt in seventh.

The women and men additionally take part within the curling later, hoping to achieve some momentum for Nice Britain’s medal hunt after Lilal Concern and Lewis Gibson missed out yesterday.

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week in the past22:48 Amie Wilson

Developing tomorrow

For Group GB focus tomorrow will likely be on the lads’s Skeleton. the ultimate two runs of the ultimate happen between 6.30pm and 9.20pm. 

GB’s Matt Weston at the moment leads the way in which by 0.3 seconds, however it should all come down the the ultimate two runs down the observe. Marcus Wyatt at the moment sits in seventh place. 

Elsewhere, Group GB’s males’s and girls’s groups are again in curling motion; the lads face hosts Italy at 8.05am, and the ladies tackle Korea at 1.05pm. 

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Here is a take a look at the most recent medal desk after the sixth day of motion: 

1. Norway, 7 golds, 2 silvers, 5 bronze 

2. Italy, 6 golds, 3 silvers, 8 bronze

3. USA, 4 golds, 7 silvers, 3 bronze

4. Germany, 4 golds, 3 silvers, 2 bronze 

5. Sweden, 4 golds, 3 silvers, 1 bronze 

week in the past21:42 Amie Wilson

Extra velocity skating medals

The final of the medals of the day have been handed out within the males’s 100m brief observe velocity skating. The Netherlands got here out on high once more with Jens van ‘T Wout taking the gold. 

Solar Lengthy of China took the silver with the bronze going to Rim Jongun of Korea. 

week in the past06:39 Josh Holland

Group GB's day in full

It’a a busy day for Group GB as they proceed their hunt for his or her first medal. 

Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston begin their marketing campaign within the skeleton at 8.30AM earlier than Mateo Jeannesson is in motion at 9am in qualification for the Freestyle Snowboarding.

Anna Pryce is competing for a objective within the Girls’s 10km cross-country snowboarding. 

Britain’s Marcus Wyatt begins his Winter Olympics marketing campaign right now (Picture: Getty) week in the past06:26 Josh Holland

Hey and welcome to Day Six

Welcome again for our protection of the Winter Olympics as we enter Day Six.

The motion begins in lower than two hours time with the Girls’s curling kicking off the day. Group GB’s males are in motion at 1.05pm GMT towards Sweden. Keep tuned as we convey you Wednesday’s headlines and what to anticipate right now.

Curling takes centre-stage at the beginning of Thursday (Picture: Getty)

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