The Great Britian junior Winter Olympics team have won 3 medals, after winnign silver in the female bobsleigh competition on the final day. 　 Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers won silver, while their teammates the GB second team, Kirsten Emerson and Frances Slater finished fourth. It is a promising ...
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It is virtually impossible to ignore the fact that the Olympics are less than seven months away. We have constant reminders that the very best athletes from around the world will soon descend on our shores to compete at the very pinnacle of their chosen sport. What may have slipped the attention of ...
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Suspicion of snow is a peculiarly British trait. Globally speaking, in the most generalised manner, the winter season is embraced as a time of cooperation, community and cheer. In the UK, however, the gift-giving formalities of Christmas Day simply distract, as melancholy prevails with the begin...
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Britain's Shelley Rudman beat the weather to take third place in the women's skeleton event at the European Championships in Germany. Bad weather in Altenberg reduced the event and the men's two-man bobsleigh to a single run. Germany's Anje Huber took gold in a time of 59.87 to beat fellow German K...
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British snowboarding star Zoe Gillings is brimming with confidence ahead of the forthcoming World Cup event in Austria.   The British number one finished 10th in the opening round in the United States and has spoken of her aim of achieving a podium when the next round starts on January 10.   Gilli...
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Austria's Marcel Hirscher has taken the lead in the World Cup overall standings after claiming his second win of the season in a slalom in Alta Badia on Monday.   Hirscher was fastest in the first leg and attacked the second to record a combined time of one minute 47.16 seconds. It was the 22-year-...
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Ahead of Saturday's race at Val Gardena, Sweden's Hans Olsson led downhill training for the second successive day. The 27-year-old from Mora registered a time of one minute, 57.48 seconds on the Saslong course, five seconds quicker than his first run on Wednesday.Second was Austrian Klaus Kroell, 1....
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