Slip Sliding to Silver

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:41

Written by Editor

On Saturday, Team GB won a gold and silver in short-track speed skating. Great Britain have won three medals at the Winter Youth Olympic Games after bobsleigh duo Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers took silver on the final day.

They moved up to silver from fourth place after the first run, in a race won by the Netherlands' Marije van Huigenbosch and Sanne Dekker. The second GB duo, Kirsten Emerson and Frances Slater, finished fourth in Innsbruck, Austria. On Saturday, Team GB won a gold and silver in short-track speed skating.

British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Hunt predicted a bright future for the duo, who won on the track where Britain triumphed in two-man bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
He said on Twitter: "Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers win bobsleigh silver. Brilliant, no doubt Innsbruck is just the start for these two!"

In the boy’s bobsleigh, GB's Olly Bidulph and James Lelliott came fifth, 0.27 seconds behind gold medallists Patrick Baumgartner and Alessandro Grande from Italy and 0.10 seconds off a medal.