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Eve Muirhead’s team win Britain’s first Olympic curling title since Rhona Martin’s ‘Stone of Destiny’ in 2002 and GB’s first gold of 2022

Great Britain have competed at every Winter Olympics since they began in 1924 - and will take a team of 50 athletes to Beijing

Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds were denied bronze by Sweden pair at Beijing Winter Olympics

Rhona Martin, for now still the last skip to guide a British team to an Olympic curling gold medal 20 years ago, summed it up succinctly when she described Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat’s agonising Beijing semi-final defeat as decided on mere "inches here and there.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin appeared to fall asleep during the Beijing Winter Olympic opening ceremony, just as the Ukrainian delegation marched into the stadium.

Plus, Belgian skeleton athlete almost quits over Covid ordeal and US figure skater makes history as first non-binary Winter Olympian

The historic bronze medal had barely been hung around her neck before Sky Brown, Britain’s 13-year-old skateboarding star, was already planning her next astonishing trick - a twin sport bid at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Hinch was up to her old tricks to finally kill off a Spanish side who had twice pegged back their opponents to finish 2-2 in their quarter

Great Britain bobsleigh history was made on Saturday as unfunded duo Brad Hall and Greg Cackett secured a first World Cup 2-man medal with silver in Igls, Austria.

Questions were being asked of Tottenham’s medical staff after defender Jan Vertonghen was initially allowed to play on following a clash of heads in the Champions League semi-final, before then having to be helped from the field.