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With the 2023 edition of X games just weeks away, Freestyle Snowboarder and instructor Cerys Allen names her favourite to take glory. The winter extreme sport series sees the world’s best freestyle skiers and snowboarders invited to Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, Colorado. Allen believes that Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser is one to watch in the women’s […]
Great Britain are still struggling to get success at this years Winter Olympics and the chance to secure a single medal is quickly fading. The men’s and women’s GB Curling team’s were both struck with unfortunate losses. Following their success of beating Sweden in their last match the women’s team came up short against South […]
Great Britain’s women’s curling provided an immediate response after defeat earlier today, by thrashing Sweden 8-2 in their second round robin match. Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff were unlucky to lose 6-5 to Switzerland in the early hours of this morning, but responded well with a clinical win against the reigning […]
In the Winter Olympics so far, team GB have had a medal drought, and the Skeleton might be their last hope. GB has historically found success in the sport, with Gloucestershire local Lizzy Yarnold earning gold medals in the competition at the past two Winter Olympic games, 2014 and 2018. Team GB’s skeleton athletes for […]
Great Britain’s most famous Winter Olympian Michael ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards reflects on his journey to the 1988 Calgary games. Edwards, born and raised in Cheltenham, reveals one of the many setbacks he had to overcame in his pursuit of ski success. A then-Alpine skier, the 58-year-old was beginning to make a name for himself […]