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I think we can be happy with six medals overall. Now all the focus is on 2024 Olympics/Paralympics cycle. I look forward to it. Next major event is probably Belgrade 2022 Indoor Athletics Championships

Was there any update to this concept? It seems to have stagnated

Took us a while but we have now got medal number six, Ollie Hall with a bronze in the para snowboarding (Men's Banked Slalom SB-LL2), 1:10.45 was his time.

Day 3 had two more bronze medals: Fitzpatrick and Smith with a time of 2:05.98 in the women's super combined vision impaired alpine skiing, and Simpson and Simpson with a 1:52.81 in the men's equivalent event

Neil Simpson wins our first gold and third medal with a 1:08.91 in the men's event, along with his guide Andrew Simpson

Meena Fitzpatrick and guide Gary Smith pick up Medal #2, a silver in the women's Super-G (Vision Impaired) with a time of 1:18.79.

After waiting nearly the entire competition to win a medal in the Olympics, our first bronze medal has been earned in Para Alpine Skiing, with Millie Knight and guide Brett Wild snagging a bronze medal in the Women's Downhill (Vision Impaired) with a time of 1:23.20.

I decided to make a blog about the Olympics, the first post is here. https://gbgames.sport.blog/2022/03/03/after-two-olympic-games-celebrated-in-six-months-a-health-check-on-team-gb/ It is a long one, that recaps each sport's performance in Tokyo 2020/Beijing 2022 and gives some analysis on the health of our Team. I hope you read it and follow the blog as I will post more during the Paris 2024 qualification (at least I plan to).

Here is the statement in full: The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reiterated today the IOC’s strong condemnation of the breach of the Olympic Truce by the Russian government and the government of Belarus through its support in this. The respective UN resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 2 December 2021 by consensus of all 193 UN Member States. The Olympic Truce began seven days before the start of the Olympic Games, on 4 February 2022, and ends seven days after the closing of the Paralympic Games. The IOC EB today urges all International Sports Federations to relocate or cancel their sports events currently planned in Russia or Belarus. They should take the breach of the Olympic Truce by the Russian and Belarussian governments into account and give the safety and security of the athletes absolute priority. The IOC itself has no events planned in Russia or Belarus. In addition, the IOC EB urges that no Russian or Belarussian national flag be displayed and no Russian or Belarussian anthem be played in international sports events which are not already part of the respective World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) sanctions for Russia. At the same time, the IOC EB expresses its full support to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the upcoming Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The IOC EB expresses its deep concerns about the safety of the members of the Olympic Community in Ukraine and stands in full solidarity. It notes that the special IOC task force is in contact with the Olympic Community in the country to coordinate humanitarian assistance where possible. The IOC EB asks the task force to continue to closely monitor the situation and to keep the IOC EB informed and updated, also with regard to potential amendments of today’s resolution. Today’s IOC statement builds on yesterday’s statement, which can be found here. I presume the first event to be affected will be the Paralympics, I can not imagine the IPC would disobey this "advice"

Interesting breaking news story: The International Olympic Committee has told International Federations to move any events scheduled to take place in Russia or Belarus out of the countries in its strongest condemnation yet of their attack on Ukraine. Following a meeting of the Executive Board, the IOC has also resolved that no Russian or Belarussian national flags should be displayed at any sporting events. More follows. Report insidethegames.biz

Sir Jason Kenny has retired. He won seven Olympic gold medals and two silvers, making him the best British Olympic athlete ever. A sad day, but as I first read the headline as "Jason Kenny dies" instead of retires

I could listen to this His Excellency Thomas Bach guy forever, the man who brought the world peace, who solved the pandemic, who won gold at the Olympics in Fencing in 1976. I think he should be President for Life of everywhere

1976-counter: 2

Many people working at the BOA, UK Sport etc should be very grateful to these lot

Bruce Mouat , Men's curling silver medallist and skip is our closing ceremony flagbearer. Also: 1976-counter: 1

Curling: 3-10 GOLD! I said to my dad on the day before the Olympics I don't know much about our medal hopes/chances, I just hope we win at least one gold so they play the national anthem there and it's happened. So delighted and noone deserves it more than Eve Muirhead. Bobsleigh: Brad Hall with a 58.65 in Run 3, putting him in 6th with a total time of 2:56.34. And in the final run, 59.38 with a total time of 3:55.72, enough for 6th. Just the Closing Ceremony to come of these Olympics and we get one gold medal, and one silver, both in curling. It's pretty disappointing of course, but it's probably better than we were fearing at one point. I feel like writing something longer about the state of our Olympic team, but for now I'm going to mope as I have nothing to do

Schedule for Day 16: 0100 Curling: Women's Gold Medal Game: vs 0130 Bobsleigh: 4-man Heat 3 - Brad Hall 0320 Bobsleigh: 4-man Heat 4 - Brad Hall 1200 Closing Ceremony inc. Parade of Nations

Bobsleigh: Mica McNeill with a 1:02.17 in her 3rd heat, keeping her in 19th with 3:06.71. In the fourth heat, a 1:02.14 which took her up to 17th with a final time of 4:08.85. This meant no more medals were won on Day 15

Welcome to Totallympics Molly, I think that the IOC is corrupt (although less so than some IFs), rotten even but with the host cities up for selection being Beijing and Almaty (Kazakhstan) I think they made the right decision. I don't think the Chinese needed to bribe them. @Grassmarket Qazaqstan is romanised from Kazakh, Kazakhstan is romanised from Russian, so I guess it's like the Ukrainians changing the English name of their capital from Kiev (Russian) to Kyiv (Ukrainian)

Curling: 5-4 . Our first medal of the Olympic Games is Silver.

BBC commentator has had too much sugar in his coffee I think

Cross-Country Skiing: Andrew Musgrave with a 12th placed finish and a time of 1:13:29.3

Bobsleigh: Brad Hall (58.60) joint 5th after Run 1. In Run 2 he got a 59.09, and his total time of 1:57.69 puts him in 6th. Freestyle Skiing: Gus Kenworthy got a 17.50 in Run 1, putting him in 10th. In Run 2 he didn't improve with 3.75, putting him in 11th. In Run 3 he got a 71.25 and finished 8th.

Day 15 Schedule: 0130 Bobsleigh: 4-man Heat 1 - Brad Hall 0130 Freestyle Skiing: Men's Freeski Halfpipe Final Run 1 - Gus Kenworthy 0158 Freestyle Skiing: Men's Freeski Halfpipe Final Run 2 - Gus Kenworthy 0225 Freestyle Skiing: Men's Freeski Halfpipe Final Run 3 - Gus Kenworthy 0305 Bobsleigh: 4-man Heat 2 - Brad Hall 0600 Cross-Country Skiing: Men's 50km Mass Start Free - Andrew Musgrave 0650 Curling: Men's Gold Medal Game: vs 1200 Bobsleigh: 2-woman Heat 3 - Mica McNeill 1330 Bobsleigh: 2-woman Heat 4 - Mica McNeill

Curling: 11-12 Team GB will get at least two at least silver medals!