Kirsty Muir: Workforce GB’s youngest athlete’s first leap at Beijing Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is in full swing on a dramatic day 4 in Beijing after two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin went out of large slalom after the 26-year-old misplaced an edge on the fifth gate of the primary run and skied out. Nonetheless to return is a raft of motion from ice hockey, luge, pace skating and ski leaping, in addition to Nice Britain’s blended doubles curling semi-final towards Norway. The Norwegians beat British duo Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat yesterday however each nonetheless reached the semis, the place they meet once more with medal hopes on the road.
Earlier on Monday, snowboarder Max Parrot soared in males’s snowboard slopestyle, because the most cancers survivor gained gold for Canada. An improve from the silver he earned on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games, Parrot was identified with Hodgkin’s lymphoma- a kind of blood cancer- in December 2018, forcing him to overlook the entire of subsequent season. However three years, he stands atop the Olympic podium, alongside his compatriot Mark McMorris who earned bronze.
Seventeen-year-old Kirsty Muir confirmed her mettle to soar into the ultimate of the Olympic freestyle Large Air competitors on the positioning of a former state-owned metal mill on the outskirts of Beijing. Muir, the youngest member of the 50-strong Workforce GB squad, nailed her first leap with a rating of 89.25, the second greatest of the qualifying session which was solely overwhelmed by the French former World Cup winner Tess Ledeux.
Comply with all the most recent updates Winter Olympics information, updates and outcomes under:
Winter Olympics 2022: Ladies’s 15km biathlon replace
Thus far Germany’s Denise Herrman is wanting prone to take the gold in a upset within the occasion! The previous skier set a time of 44:1:7.
Sweden’s Hanna and Elvira Oberg, who’re sisters, have been favourites however they’re ninth and tenth. Each of them missed three targets and their snowboarding couldn’t make up for the errors.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:59
Winter Olympics 2022: Wurst wins gold in girls’s 1500m pace skating
Ireen Wurst has defended her girls’s 1500m pace skating title and has performed so in a file time.
It’s the third title within the occasion for the Netherlands athlete and he or she has additionally turn out to be the oldest Dutch star to win a gold medal at 35. It was a nervous look forward to Wurst as she needed to watch the ultimate pair race whereas on the high of the chief board however Japan’s Miho Takagi and ROC’s Elizaveta Golubeva couldn’t pip her to the medal.
Takagi takes silver and Netherlands’ Antoinette de Jong wins bronze.
What a narrative for Wurst who’s competing at her final Olympics. She has additionally turn out to be the primary Olympian ever to win a gold medal in 5 particular person occasions.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:49
Winter Olympics 2022: Mikaela Shiffrin “heartbroken” to crash out
Mikaela Shiffrin was slated to turn out to be the primary American alpine skier to win three gold medals however she crashed out of the ladies’s large slalom occasion.
Sara Hector gained the highest prize and Shiffrin is heartbroken by the consequence. “I gained’t ever recover from this,” stated the 26-year-old.
“That heartbreak by no means goes away and I feel that’s what drives me to maintain working. Generally they nonetheless occur and sadly it occurred at this time.”
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:42
Winter Olympics 2022: Ireen Wurst units new Olympic file
Ireen Wurst has set a brand new Olympic file within the girls’s 1500m pace skating ultimate and what a narrative she has written for herself!
She is the Netherland’s most adorned Olympian of all time and this Video games can be her final so the race might end a fairytale story.
She managed to shave 1.54 seconds off of her compatriot Antoinette de Jong’s time and set a brand new Olympic file! The time was 1.53.28 and the defending champion is on the high of the desk.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:37
Winter Olympics 2022: Gold medal occasions proceed
The ladies’s 15km biathlon is ongoing with 9km performed for the rivals who began first this morning, all updates coming when these medal locations are confirmed.
The ladies’s 1500m pace skating ultimate is again underway. The Netherlands’ Antoinette de Jong has simply taken the highest of the chief board there with Britain’s Ellia Smeding in nineteenth place presently.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:33
Winter Olympics 2022: Concern for Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai has described experiences she accused a high-ranking Chinese language official of sexual assault as a “enormous misunderstanding” as she repeated her denial the alleged incident ever happened.
The previous doubles world primary stated in a social media publish in November that she was pressured to have intercourse with former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli. Her publish was swiftly deleted and her subsequent silence raised fears over her security.
Peng attended Monday’s blended curling match between China and Norway and, in keeping with the IOC, said her intention to attend extra occasions on the Winter Olympics over the following two weeks. She additionally accepted an invite to go to IOC headquarters in Lausanne.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:24
Winter Olympics 2022: Britain put together for blended doubles curling semi
Nice Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat will tackle Norway’s Kristen Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten in just a few hours time within the blended doubles curling semi-final.
The British duo are conscious of how tough it will likely be to succeed in the ultimate.
“It’s going to be a battle on the market tonight,” stated Dodds. “If we tighten up the errors we made towards them final night time, it will likely be an in depth sport – each time we’ve got performed them to date has at all times been shut.
“Clearly we didn’t play our greatest towards them final night time, however after that efficiency towards the USA, I feel we will take a variety of confidence into tonight’s match.”
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:11
Winter Olympics 2022: Ladies’s 15km Biathlon gold medal occasion
One other gold medal occasion is underway with the ladies’s 15km biathlon gold medal occasion!
Sweden’s Hanna and Elvira Oberg, who’re sisters, are favourites on this one with the pair sharing the rostrum at latest occasions.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:06
Winter Olympic 2022: Ladies’s 1500m pace skating ultimate
So they’re making ready the ice for extra pairing to race which appears a very good time to recap what has occurred to date on this gold medal occasion.
ROC’s Evgeniia Lalenkova in first, Belarus’ Ekaterina Sloeva is in second and China’s Ahenaer Adake in third.
They’re adopted by Kazakhstan’s Yekaterina Aidova, Poland’s Natalia Czerwonka, USA’s Mia Kilburg, Czech Republic’s Nikola Zdrahalova, ROC’s Elena Sokhryakova, Belarus’ Maryna Zuyeva, Canada’s Maddison Pearlman, Germany’s Michelle Uhrig, Chinese language Taipei’s Yu Ting Huang, Britain’s Ellia Smedding, Norway’s Sofie Karoline Haugen, Belgium’s Sandrina Tas and Poland’s Magdalena Czyszczon.
The skaters can be again shortly.
Sarah Rendell7 February 2022 09:01
Kirsty Muir reacts to reaching Freeski Large Air ultimate
“I actually loved it, I skied properly and I am actually blissful to have landed my dub 12 within the first run. I am wanting ahead to tomorrow,” Kirsty Muir, Workforce GB’s youngest Olympian, stated after reaching the Freeski Large Air Remaining.
“I simply need to go and land my tips [tomorrow] and ski my finest. The snow this morning was actually good – for the primary run this morning, the pace was actually good then simply with the solar the snow’s simply slowed down slightly bit and slightly little bit of an uphill wind so we simply needed to get extra pace for the second and third runs.”
Muir goes within the Large Air ultimate from 0200 GMT tomorrow morning.
Nice Britain’s Kirsty Muir
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Kirsty Muir of Workforce Nice Britain performs a trick
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Kirsty Muir speaks to the media
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Jack Rathborn7 February 2022 08:59
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