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Curlers keep GB gold run going but team falls short of 2022 Winter medals target

Curling saved an otherwise disappointing Winter Olympics for Great Britain as Eve Muirhead and Bruce Mouat led their rinks to gold and silver medals respectively. Those were the only British medals in Beijing, a step back from five-medal hauls at ...

21 Feb 2022 at 13:25

Sport

Jamie Nicholls keeps believing in Katie Ormerod despite Beijing disappointment

Two-time Olympian Jamie Nicholls insists Katie Ormerod can still be a major force in women’s snowboarding after her disappointment in Beijing. Ormerod, the first Briton to win a World Cup snowboard title in 2020, missed out on the finals in both ...

14 Feb 2022 at 14:55

Sport

Dave Ryding named in Team GB’s ski and snowboard squad for Beijing 2022

Dave Ryding will head to his fourth Winter Olympics in Beijing next month as part of a 21-strong British ski and snowboard squad. The 35-year-old Ryding has achieved two World Cup podiums and finished ninth in the men’s slalom at the 2018 Games ...

21 Jan 2022 at 11:25

Lifestyle

Snowboarder Katie Ormerod on her remarkable comeback for Beijing Winter Olympics after freak accident

When snowboarder Katie Ormerod was lying in a hospital bed four years ago, being told she’d need to learn to walk again – Beijing 2022 (kicking off on February 4) felt like a long way off. After slipping during a practice trick, her heel broke ...

02 Feb 2022 at 09:25

Sport

Great Britain to send team of 25 athletes to Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing

Great Britain will send a team of 25 athletes to the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. ParalympicsGB has confirmed its biggest team since Lillehammer in 1994 after announcing 20 skiing and snowboard competitors alongside the five wheelchair ...

22 Feb 2022 at 11:25

Weather

When will it snow? Met Éireann weather forecaster has latest #SNEACHTA

Freezing, wintry weather with snow is in the Met Éireann weather forecast as meteorological winter begins on Friday, December 1. In a commentary on what to expect the forecaster says that as that date approaches, a northerly airflow will ...

29 Nov 2023 at 13:33

Health

Music teacher whose “trapped nerve” turned out to be MS keeps snowboarding despite having no feeling below her knees and aims for the Paralympics

A music teacher who refused to let her love affair with mountain sports end when multiple sclerosis (MS) robbed her of feeling below her knees has qualified to represent Great Britain as a para-snowboarder. If Nina Sparks, 31, goes to ...

09 Jun 2022 at 09:47

Travel

If one skis and the other snowboards, can a ski holiday work?

There are few sounds more intimidating to an average skier than the jarring, scratchy, grating approach of a snowboarder from behind in ominously icy conditions. I’d often given boarders – who always seemed to be teens or at least ...

31 Oct 2022 at 11:13

Sport

Great Britain falls short on medals target in Beijing despite curling success

Great Britain’s failure to meet its broad medals target in Beijing is sure to raise some serious questions relating to support and funding in the weeks and months ahead. UK Sport set a target of three to seven medals in Beijing ...

20 Feb 2022 at 13:25

Sport

Today at the Winter Olympics: Great Britain’s wait for a first medal continues

Great Britain’s wait for a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics goes on. Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds saw their hopes of bronze in the mixed doubles curling dashed by a 9-3 defeat to Sweden, while 17-year-old Kirsty Muir ...

08 Feb 2022 at 17:55

Snowboarding

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale make history with GB mixed snowboard gold

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale made history for Great Britain when they claimed the country’s maiden mixed team snowboard cross gold at the world championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. It was a redemptive morning for ...

02 Mar 2023 at 11:49

Snowboarding

It’s like I’m in a dream – Mia Brookes becomes snowboarding world champion at 16

British teenager Mia Brookes is still in a state of shock after her coronation as the youngest world champion in snowboarding history. The 16-year-old was too young to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, but ...

27 Feb 2023 at 18:40

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