Brits in Winter action

[mpjmcevoy 362]

On 4/3/2023 at 7:43 PM, Dragon said:

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.

The fairly astonishing rise to relevance of the men's ice hockey team on the back of a fun, enjoyable but hardly elite (pun intended) league is an object lesson to basketball. Oddly, the recent EIHL tragedy has shown the familial collegiality of the sport in its best light.

[Grassmarket 3,388]

Had forgotten this thread, but we have been piling up the medals already this season.

 

Snowboard Big Air - Bronze for Mia Brookes in Chur

Ice Dance - Fear & Gibson won Gold in the NHK Trophy in Japan

Men’s Curling - European Gold for Bruce Mouatt.

Freeski Big Air - Silver for Kirsty Muir in Beijing.

Team Snowboard Cross - Gold for Nightingale & Bankes in Les Deux Alpes.

 

And top fives for Dave Ryding. Mia Brookes & Andrew Musgrave.

Edited December 3, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 3,388]

Wow, out of absolutely nowhere we get a world-class female skeleton slider!  Tabitha Stoeckler, a former circus trapeze artist* takes gold in La Plagne!

 

 

* Not the first trapeze artist to represent GB.  Billy Morgan, bronze in Snowboard Big Air in 2018 had been one.  Pole Vaulter Stacey Dragila was also a circus acrobat.

Edited December 8, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 3,388]

Men’s Skeleton going to be another fertile source of medals this year.

 

Silver - Matt Weston

Bronze (tied) - Marcus Wyatt.

 

And enough points to keep us at top of the Nations’ table, which gives us a Norwegian-style four sleds per race.

Edited December 8, 2023 by Grassmarket

[TeamGB 167]

Any idea whats happened to Brad Hall (Bobsleigh)?

[Grassmarket 3,388]

Silver for Mia Brookes in the Big Air in Edmonton.  

 

Big Air World Cup: Britain's Mia Brookes finishes second in Edmonton - BBC Sport

[Dragon 1,843]

On 12/8/2023 at 6:46 PM, TeamGB said:

Any idea whats happened to Brad Hall (Bobsleigh)?

Had surgery in the autumn, will probably miss all this season.

Also Laura Deas (skeleton) will miss this winter due to pregnancy

Edited December 10, 2023 by Dragon
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[Grassmarket 3,388]

Plenty medals today!

 

Gold - Matt Weston - skeleton

Bronze - Tabitha Stoecker - skeleton

Bronze - Mia Brookes - snowboard big air

Bronze - Zoe Atkins - Ski Halfpipe.

[Grassmarket 3,388]

And in fact Mia Brookes has won the Snowboard Big Air overall!  Didn’t get any golds, but a silver, 2 bronzes & fifth won it on consistency.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/67733258

[Grassmarket 3,388]

Is this our greatest winter sports weekend ever? It must surely be. Silver for Andrew Musgrave in the Trondheim Skiathlon.