Gossip Wire News grinds to a halt for huge Team GB Winter | UK News

Gossip Wire News was halted to share big news from Team GB, who are at the moment competing in the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Looking at the digital camera, the presenter shared: “News this hour, Great Britain has received their second gold medal at the Winter Olympics, and their first ever on snow at the Winter Olympic Games. Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale have received gold in the combined staff snowboard. Italy claims second,” he said, promising to return to the story.

The pair’s win follows Matt Weston’s victory in the lads’s skeleton on Friday, February 13. This represented Great Britain’s first medal at the winter video games since successful gold in girls’s curling 4 years in the past. This latest accolade is Team GB’s first gold medal on snow since 1924, when it competed at the Winter Olympics. In earlier Winter Olympics, Jenny Jones, Billy Morgan, and Izzy Atkin had taken bronze. 

This is also the first time Great Britain has received two gold medals at the same Winter Olympics. 

The staff had not entered the event as favourites and have been seeded thirteenth despite successful the only combined staff World Cup of the season before the Games.

Both had also given underwhelming performances in their solo occasions at the video games. Charlotte fell in the quarter-finals on Friday, while Huw was knocked out in the spherical of 16.

Despite this, they romped to victory on Sunday, February 15, to declare victory forward of Italy, who received silver, and France, who took bronze. 

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The pair have been greeted by deafening cheers as they stepped to the top of the rostrum to obtain their medals.

Ironically, given their defeat of France, Hemel Hempstead-born Charlotte started her worldwide profession competing for the rival nation at the age of 15, after shifting to the French Alps as a younger little one.

She rapidly established herself as a rising expertise, ultimately successful two World Junior Championship titles and three French national championships. She made her Winter Olympics debut for the nation in 2014.

For an athlete to change national illustration, their current federation sometimes must agree to release them. In November 2018, the French Ski Federation formally agreed to release her, releasing her up to compete for Great Britain.