Winter Olympics

 
 

The long anticipated and controversial Winter Olympics takes place this month from 4th - 20th February. A number of nations, including the UK and the USA, won't be sending delegates (representatives from the country) to the Games due to allegations about Chinese treatment of the Uighur community.

Our December article can be found here and here is the schedule of events.


Team GB are represented by 50 athletes across 11 sports including GB Snow Sport athletes in the following sports:

Alpine

Charlie Guest
Billy Major
Dave Ryding
Alex Tilley

Freestyle

SkiIzzy Atkin
Zoe Atkin
Gus Kenworthy
Kirsty Muir
Katie Summerhayes
James Woods

Nordic

James Clugnet
Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Young

Snowboard Cross

Charlotte Bankes
Huw Nightingale

Moguls

Will Feneley
Leonie Gerken Schofield
Makayla Gerken Schofield

Freestyle Snowboard

Katie Ormerod

Aerials

Lloyd Wallace

Ski Cross

Ollie Davies


You can watch the Games on BBC and Eurosport in the UK as well as catching up on BBC 2 highlights show and BBC iPlayer, Red Button and BBC Sport website.


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