Monday, 26 February 2018

Winter Olympics: British winter sport 'going in right direction' as Pyeongchang 2018 ends

Great Britain's record medal haul at Pyeongchang 2018 shows winter sport in the country is "going in the right direction", said the team's chef de mission as the Games ended on Sunday.

Team GB won five medals in South Korea, surpassing the previous record of four and meeting their pre-Olympics target.

It came on the back of £28.35m funding from UK Sport.

"These athletes can rightly return home very proud of what they accomplished here in South Korea," said Mike Hay.

Lizzy Yarnold defended her skeleton title to win Britain's only gold, while Dom Parsons and Laura Deas took bronze in the same sport.

Izzy Atkin was also third in the ski slopestyle and Billy Morgan claimed a surprise bronze in the big air competition.


Source : bbc

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