STORM TRACKER: Follow 'Storm Amy' as it bears down on Ireland amid brutal forecast
Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Charlotte Bankes missed out on an expected medal in the women’s snowboard-cross as Great Britain’s disappointing start to the Winter Olympics continued in Beijing.
Bankes, the reigning world champion, started as a strong favourite to win Britain’s first Olympic gold on snow but was eliminated at the quarter-final stage.
UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger said she was “not panicking yet” with regard to Britain’s medal prospects at the Games, but this was a significant setback.
Later on Farrell Treacy raised spirits by becoming the first British man to make a short-track final in 16 years – finishing in ninth place.
Here the PA news agency provides a quick guide to what happened on Wednesday in Beijing – and prospects for tomorrow.
Bankes’ disappointment was Lindsey Jacobellis’ opportunity as the American veteran proved a hugely popular snowboard-cross champion. The 36-year-old, competing in her fifth Olympics, was best known for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2006 when she ruined her final jump with an unnecessary extra trick, but 16 years later came redemption.
Mikaela Shiffrin suffered more disappointment as she crashed out the women’s slalom at Yanqing, two days after suffering a similar fate in the women’s giant-slalom. Shiffrin had been targeting multiple medals in these Games but after this latest disappointment, she said would consider whether or not to carry on competing this week. “I will try to re-set again but I don’t know how to do better,” she said. “I have never been in this position and I don’t know how to handle it.”
2006: 🥈2010: 5th2014: 7th2018: 4th2022: 🥇@LindsJacobellis can finally call herself an Olympic champion. #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/XkdxleCJLA
— Team USA (@TeamUSA) February 9, 2022
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds must shrug off the disappointment of missing out on a mixed medal when they return to the ice with their respective teams for the start of the team curling competition. Mouat’s men face Italy (1405 UK) while Dodds joins Eve Muirhead’s side who start against Switzerland (0130 UK) and Sweden (1205 UK). Huw Nightingale goes in the men’s snowboard-cross and Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt get their skeleton campaigns underway (0130).
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
