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Olympic organisers face a race against time to squeeze in Alpine Skiing mixed event before the closing ceremony after winds of 27 miles per hour forced the race to be rescheduled… but it risks being CANCELLED with just one day of the games left The Alpine skiing mixed event was due to take place on … Read more
Britain’s Cornelius Kersten misses out on historic speed skating medal by THREE tenths of a second… But his ninth place finish is best result by a British Olympic skater in 58 years Cornelius Kersten finished ninth in the men’s 1,000 metres on Friday He was just 0.31 seconds behind bronze medallist Haavard Lorentzen of Norway … Read more
Great Britain dramatically seal their place in semi-finals of the Winter Olympics women’s curling by TEN CENTIMETRES as they beat the Russians and TWO other results go their way in tense finale Great Britain made the semi-finals of the women’s curling after a tense finale They needed to beat the ROC and hope that other … Read more
‘Everyone has a gold medal, but not me. I hate skating. I hate it’: Distraught Russian silver-medallist Alexandra Trusova, 17, vows to ‘never skate again’ in extraordinary rant after missing out on victory at Beijing Winter Olympics Russian figure skater Alexandra Trusova missed out on the Gold by 4.22 points The 17-year-old attempted five quadruple … Read more
Norway’s Ingrid Tandrevold misses out on Winter Olympics bronze in agonising fashion as she COLLAPSES over the finish line in women’s biathlon 10km pursuit after coming to a standstill on the home straight Ingrid Tandrevold collapsed at the end of the women’s 10km pursuit The Norwegian biathlete was on the verge of winning the bronze … Read more
Winter Olympics falls into chaos in Beijing… after REAL SNOW falls, leading to disruption of events including slopestyle skiing featuring British medal hopeful Kirsty Muir, with qualifying postponed until Monday Several inches of snow fell inside 24 hours leading to event cancellations Women’s slopestyle skiing qualifiers were delayed, then put back until Monday The courses … Read more
‘An awful lot of thinking to do’: Team GB’s skeleton team set to return WITHOUT a medal for the first time since 1998 as athletes claim their ‘speed is being haemorraged by the kit’ they’ve been provided with Team GB are yet to win a single medal at this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing Their … Read more
Team GB miss out on a Winter Olympics medal in the women’s skeleton for the first time in 20 YEARS as Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley fail to make the top 20 in calamitous start Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley made a poor start to the women’s skeleton event Deas, who won bronze four years … Read more
Team GB look set to end their skeleton medal streak at the Winter Olympics after both Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt deliver disappointing first-round runs – with Britain making the podium in each of the last FIVE Games Team GB have two athletes competing in the skeleton event at the Olympics However, both Matt Weston … Read more
Ice hockey referee has to leave the rink covered in blood after being struck in the face by a Team USA player’s stray stick during their defeat to Canada A ice hockey ref was left pouring with blood after being hit by a wayward stick Official Cianna Lieffers sustained a nasty cut above her mouth … Read more