ExpandGreat result for our U-23 Cross Country Skl Team in the Worlds - 10th place finally, after being as high as 6th at one point. That is certainly the first ever British Relay team this century - don't know if we ever had teams out back in 80s and early 90s when we were last active in the sport. Team was Gabriel Gledhill, the only one with World Cup Starts, Tabitha Williams, James Slimon & Elke Hammerstein (seems to be a US import) - the two girls are 20 and 19, so plenty of time left to develop on the U-23 circuit.
Hammerstein's a Londoner. The fact she went to Cheltenham Ladies College suggests she's not short of a few quid..
Father might be a German aristocrat
More Skeleton success.
GB1 won the mixed team event yesterday
Skeleton update
Marcus Wyatt wins World Cup bronze and European Championships silver.
Matt Weston finishes 9th but clinches the overall World Cup title with Wyatt taking 2nd place.
Staying on the subject of skeleton. The final races of the World Cup will be held tomorrow and they also double up as the European Championships.
Matt Weston only needs to finish in the top 15 to retain the World Cup and if he doesn't a top 6 finish for Marcus Wyatt will do the same trick.
In the women's event, good finishes for the Brits will certainly see 3 in this year's final World Cup top 10.
But there also European medals on offer. GB team will be Weston, Wyatt, Bostock (men) Coltman, Tarbit, Stoecker (women)
ExpandYeah, pretty sure she did. Last result February 2023.
Offically she's still on a maternity break after the birth of her daughter in 2024 but it does seems unlikely she'll ever return to competition.
ExpandFrom my calculations, GB is on 13 'proper' world cup win's this year (Figure skating and Curling don't count due to limited fields), which would be second behind the 15 in 2022-2023.
This doesn't include the world championships which would give another 4 to 2023
ExpandCharlotte Bankes doubled up in China this morning,so into the WC lead as well.
I wonder what's the record for most overall winter WC wins for Britain in a year?
ExpandWow! Brakeman must be an utter moron.
ExpandGold again.for Brad Hall in the St Moritz 4-Man!
Just to note, Friedrich is liable to lose 2 2-man wins and a 2nd place in the 4-man because his brakeman tested positive in Winterberg so it looks good for an overall World Cup win for Hall
Couple of good results from lower level skeleton events.
Isabella Fassnidge, silver in the women's Europa Cup event in Altenberg.
Laurence Bastock, bronze in the men's event on the same track
And this who I was thinking of when I mentioned a Dutch gymnast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona_van_de_Leur
ExpandDidn't a group fo Romania gymnasts do something like that a couple of decades ago - I recall it being a scandal.
Can't say, given the body type typical of gymnasts, that I'd be very comfortable with that.
The Romanians didn't get into trouble for performing gymnastic routines topless. They got into bother because they had official national team costumes on at the start of the routine....
ExpandDidn't a group fo Romania gymnasts do something like that a couple of decades ago - I recall it being a scandal.
Can't say, given the body type typical of gymnasts, that I'd be very comfortable with that.
I know someone who keeps an eye on those sorts of things,
I'll get back to you on this...
I think there was a Dutch gymnast who went a lot further than that in the past.
Not that I'm an expert in that kind of thing... 
ExpandMust say I had given up on British Short Track after all the troubles and woes of Elise Christie. OK, a European silver is good to have but the weight of the sport is in East Asia, but hopefully a bit more sponsorship and funding....
Niall Treacy: British short track skater wins 1,000m silver at European Championships - BBC Sport
Interesting to see Elise hit the headlines again this month. 
Mia Brookes won gold in the X Games overnight
Bad news
I doubt this will last long but, at the moment, 
are above 
in the men's team standings at both the Alpine and Nordic World Cups.
Part 6 Team Sports
Curling
Men
European champions, world champions by beating Canada in Canada, regular challengers for major Canadian title.
Pretty much the perfect season for Bruce Mouat
Women
Winter started with the retirement of Muirhead to be the next Clare Balding on TV.
Poor performances in the Worlds but a European bronze medal was won by Rebecca Morrison's Scottish team.
Also a world junior gold for Scotland
Mixed Doubles
Solid performance in the group stage at the World Champs but Scotland were defeated at the quarter-final stage
Ice Hockey
Men
Pretty much perfect. Won all games and instantly promoted back to Pool A.
Suggesting a slight possibility of Olympic qualification (if Russia and Belarus are still banned)
Women
Lost 4 out of 5 in Pool B but were competitive in each game.
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Part 5 Skating
Figure Skating
If you’re under 50 years old then the phrase “once upon a time Britain used to regularly win medals at this” may seem like a fairy tale to you. This year a British couple won a European silver medal and got close to a World Championship medal too. Let’s not kid ourselves this would have happened if Russia had not been banned but the ice dance partnership of Fear and Gibson have made significant progress in a short few years and have established themselves as one of the top six pairs in the world. Also in ice dance, Bekker and Hernandez won a World Junior bronze.
The singles and pairs are still very weak in comparison.
Speed Skating
If you’re under 80 years old then the phrase “once upon a time Britain used to win medals at this” may seem like a fairy tale to you. And for the first part of the winter it still seemed like a fairy tale but then Elia Smeding placed 6th at the European Sprint Championships (including a third place finish in the 1000m). Smeding then finished 8th at the World Championships but it was the performance of her boyfriend, the Dutch born Englishman Cornelius Kersten, that really caught the attention. Kersten finished behind only the American superstar in waiting, Jordan Scholz, and Olympic champion Thomas Krol to claim GB’s first World Championship medal since the early 50s.
Short Track
The phrase “once upon a time Britain used to regularly win medals at this” won’t seem that strange to you but the era of Elise Christie seems to be over. Britain took two women and a man to the World Championships and never looked like providing a finalist.
Part 4 Snowboarding
Men
Not a great winter, Huw Nightingale did score World Cup points and gradually improve his results during the season in snowboardcross but only once did he make the top 20. However 16 year old Charlie Lane won gold at slopestyle and silver in big air at the European Youth Olympic Festival.
Women
A world championship and a world cup title but it could easily have been ever better.
Mia Brookes won the World Slopestyle gold and was the highest qualifier in big air (pun intended). The World Junior Champion is still only 16 and is a long range favourite for Milan-Cortina. Also at big air Maisie Hill scored world cup points.
Charlotte Bankes crashed out of the World Championships but recovered to win her next three World Cup events and retain her World Cup title.
Mixed
After Nightingale and Bankes had been foiled in their individual events the two pulled off a surprise by winning the mixed team gold at the World Championships.
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