Winter Olympics: Team GB bobsleigh and medal hunt and Gus Kenworthy finishes eighth
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GB's four-man bobsleigh team on their second run
24th Winter Olympic Games |
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Hosts: Beijing, China Dates: 4-20 February |
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Team GB are in medal contention in the four-man bobsleigh after Brad Hall's sled was sixth after the opening two runs at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Hall, who crashed in the two-man event, is 0.69 seconds off the lead, but less than one-third of a second off bronze.
They have vowed to come out fighting on Sunday, the final day of competition at the Games.
"Sixth overnight is a drastic improvement on 2018, we're pretty happy," Greg Cackett told 成人快手 Sport.
"But we're not stopping until the fourth heat ends so fingers crossed."
In the two-woman bobsleigh Britain's Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas improved on Friday's two disappointing runs but could still only finish 17th out of the 20 teams.
Meanwhile Team GB's Gus Kenworthy fell twice - the latter a huge hit - before securing eighth in ski halfpipe as his freestyle skiing career came to an end.
New Zealand's Nico Porteous won gold with 93.00, ahead of Americans David Wise and Alex Ferreira who took silver and bronze.
Kenworthy, 30, won slopestyle silver for the US in 2014, but switched to Britain, the country of his birth, in 2019.
"Thank you for everything skiing," he said after his last run scored 71.25.
"This sport and the Olympics and competing on a professional level has changed my life in ways I could have never imagined. I grew up in a town of 2,000 people, 48 kids in my graduating class," said Kenworthy.
"I'm gay. I felt like I just didn't fit in in sport, and to be out and proud, competing at the Olympics and all of the opportunities that have come my way since the Olympics, I couldn't be more thankful. I know that there's an expiration date and I'm at that date."
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Speaking to 成人快手 Sport, he added: "Skiing has meant the whole world to me. I started doing this when I was three years old. My mum and I learned together. She was 41, she used to sing to me on the chairlift and I would take naps on her lap. She would wake me up at the top and we would do another run.
"All of my best friends I have made through this sport. Having an Olympic medal has opened up so many opportunities for me so I am eternally indebted to this sport and I feel so grateful to be able to be a part of it and compete at three Olympic Games with this one for GB on behalf of my mum. I love you mum."
The cross country 50km mass start was shortened to 30km because of the bitterly cold conditions at the Genting venue - a decision which British skier Andrew Musgrave described as "a joke".
He finished 12th, with Russia Olympic Committee's Alexander Bolshunov claiming his third gold medal of the Games and fifth medal in Beijing.