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Welcome to Team GB Daily, the Daily thread for Team GB in Paris on Totallympics! Catch the whole Team GB schedule in UK time, and discuss the day's events
 
SCHEDULE
 
4 Feb
1805 CURLING MIXED DOUBLES Round Robin -  vs
 
5 Feb
0905 CURLING MIXED DOUBLES Round Robin -  vs
1805 CURLING MIXED DOUBLES Round Robin -  vs
1830 SNOWBOARD MEN'S BIG AIR Qualification - Round 1: Txema Mazet Brown
1915 SNOWBOARD MEN'S BIG AIR Qualification - Round 2: Txema Mazet Brown
2000 SNOWBOARD MEN'S BIG AIR Qualification - Round 3: Txema Mazet Brown
 
6 Feb
0855 FIGURE SKATING TEAM EVENT Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance
0905 CURLING MIXED DOUBLES Round Robin -  vs
1035 FIGURE SKATING TEAM EVENT Pair Skating - Short Program
1235 FIGURE SKATING TEAM EVENT Women's Single Skating - Short Program
1335 CURLING MIXED DOUBLES Round Robin -  vs
1900 Opening Ceremony
 
Question of the Day
A bit of fun, answer the questions to earn points on the leaderboard to see who has the best ball knowledge
 
Curling: How many of the first five games do we win?
Figure Skating: What position is our team in after three rounds?
Snowboard: Can Txama Mazet Brown finish in the top 20?
Ceremonies: Who is/are our flagbearer(s) for the opening ceremony?
 
Leaderboard
No-one's on it yet bc this is the first day
 
Medals
0/0/0

I'm too busy working on stuff now, but if you DM some links, I can gave you some tips after the Olympics.

Frankly, GB has never gone into a Winter Games with so many medal chances.
A bad Games could see just a handful of minor medals, an absolutely perfect Games might see Britain at the bottom end of the top 6 countries in the medal table.
Probably the truth will be in between.

I mean, to be fair, last time they gave it to a Canadian in a very controversial judging decision (that the head judge later, upon seeing replays, said was wrong) 😅

I would say anything less than 5 would be a dissappointment. Sound ridiculous given that’s the best all time, but we won 5 medals (inc 3 golds), in just the x games this week. 

He will participate in the Olympics and is currently training in Livigno. Everything is quite confidential, and his level is unknown.

Team GB confirm Jacques Jeffries and Shawna Pendry take up the quota allocations for Biathlon.
 
With that, Team GB are sending a total of 53 athletes to the 2026 Winter Games.

It would make sense for him to be picked as British Biathlon made an effort to get him to move from France to Britain.
I have much more doubt about the quota of a British woman 

The animation style of this is breathtaking 
 
 

What's the deal with biathlon then? What's going on?

Less racers reduced the ranking points of 1st place by 30 points. Canada's 2nd best sled is 120 points ahead of a Latvian sled. No one in the NA cup race has any relevance at all to Canada. Only the Austrain Erlacher matters to them. The racers that could lose out, benefitted greatly by Canada entering many racers in two previous races. All of which are only competing to get one sled to the Olympics. Uhlaender may have been affected personally in her chances to go the Olympics, not sure what the American criteria is naming their team.

Yeah, see the BBC interview.  Coming off a hamstring in the summer.
 
Matt Weston wins 10th World Cup skeleton gold in Italy - BBC Sport
 
 women's team don't do quite so well, but no reason to despair yet.  As ever, starts are excellent, drives are patchy.  the opposite - average starting but great driving.   But everyone with a long way to go.

I think 2025 Christmas Time may be a good time to deliver the final simulation/predictions of 2026 Winter Olympics.
 
Stay tuned then!!!
 
Work in progress…

Legend

Legend

Day 1 - Evening Results
 
Women's Long Jump (Qualifying)- Jaz Sawyers misses out on a place in the final after placing 16th overall with a jump of 6.54m - well down on the automatic qualifying of 6.75m and 6cm shy of 12th place. It's a shame, but in the context of her return from injury perhaps it is understandable. 
 
Women's 100m (Heats) - All 3 Brits safely through (although I actually fell asleep so didn't see them ) 
 
Women's 1,500m (Heats)- Erin Wallace (Heat 1) finishes in 8th and doesn't progress. Revee Walcott-Nolan (Heat 2) qualifies for semi finals but looked far from convincing. Laura Muir (Heat 4) - Lord knows what happened to her in the last 100m. Such a shame given she seemed to be rounding into decent form. 
 
Men's 100m (Heats) - Romell Glave (Heat 1) finished 4 in 10 flat so had to rely on fastest loser spot. Jeremiah Azu (Heat 4) and Zharnel Hughes (Heat 6) both take automatic spots. Hughes looked the most likely to get to the final.  
 
Men's Shot Put (Final) - Scott Lincoln qualified for the final in 5th with 21.00m - and finishes 8th in the final with 21.00m. It was the highest place by a brit in a Shot Put final so can't really complain.
 
Women's 10,000m (Final) - Megan Keith and Cali Haugher-Thackery finish in 10th and 11th so both hit my target of top 12 finish. m. A top 12 finish and/or being the first European to finish would be decent result.  
 
Mixed 4x400m Relay (Final) - GB finished a disappointing 5th. The selectors kept faith with Lewis Davies and instead switched out Yemi Mary John. Harries and Yeargin were left with too much to do - had we been better placed, I think the bronze was there for the taking. Can't help thinking this was a missed opportunity to get the medal count moving on day 1

Latest update is that 10 US swimmers are too sick to travel with the rest of the team to Singapore. Apparently some GB swimmers, who were staying at the same resort, were also affected

There was a bit of confusion about this a couple of months back, but skeleton slider Laura Deas confirms retirement after losing her team spot during her baby break.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cn8vdqqnq54o

yep that's what cost us the silver. But they held Ireland thankfully

And yes this is precisely why I moaned excessively and loudly on here when Tarling was not included in the track team. It was a decision I really didn’t understand then and still now.
 
good news out of today was the fence by Kate and Kerenza. They should be in contention.
 
looking for a surprise gold medal from somewhere; maybe Hector in the Seine, one of the taekwondo fighters or the men’s 4x4 relay (that would make the games for me if we somehow took down USA)

We had world number 1 in both kayak cross, Franklin and Clarke were probably expected to win medals and didn't in the slalom

He's doing a Pogacar!

OMG I completely forgot KJT is yet to compete lol

It's just so fucking sickening at this point with the near misses that it's become hard to celebrate the silvers - how many near misses can one team have at an Olympic games!?

Halfway point 😭
 
Archery: Does Havers get at least one set point? NO
Artistic Gymnastics: Do GB win at least one gold today? YES
Athletics: Do we get a RELAY medal? YES
Boxing: Does Richardson win? NO
Canoe Slalom: How many Brits avoid the repechage? 3
Cycling Road: Do GB win a medal? NO
Equestrian: Do GB win a medal? YES
Hockey: Do GB avoid defeat? NO
Golf: Is FLEETWOOD in a medal position at the end of the day? YES
Sailing: Does WILSON win gold? NO
Shooting: Is Rutter in the top ten at the end of the day? YES
Swimming: Do we get a RELAY medal? NO