Dave Ryding and Andrew Musgrave selected for fifth Winter Olympic Games<\/p>\n
Dave Ryding<\/a> has been selected for the men’s Alpine skiing<\/a> slalom squad alongside Billy Major<\/a> and Laurie\u00a0Taylor. Ryding has already announced<\/a> that Milano Cortina 2026 will be his fifth and final Olympic Winter Games, with a best result of ninth at PyeongChang 2018 thus far.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s a real honour to be selected to represent Team GB again,” Ryding told Team GB. “I am looking forward to performing on the biggest stage in front of a central European crowd for the first time in my Olympic career and I can\u2019t wait to get out there and into the action. I\u2019ve never taken for granted what it means to represent my country and to have the chance to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games for the fifth time is something I could only have dreamed of when I went to my first Games back in 2010.”<\/p>\n Andrew Musgrave<\/a> is also eyeing a fifth Winter Olympics having been selected for the men’s cross country skiing<\/a> team alongside James Clugnet<\/a>, Joe Davies, and Anna Pryce. The latter is Team GB\u2019s first female Olympic cross-country skier since 2018.<\/p>\n Team Brad Hall<\/a>, world silver and bronze medallists from 2023 and 2025, respectively, encompasses Hall, Leon Greenwood, Taylor Lawrence<\/a>, and Greg Cackett<\/a> for the four-man bobsleigh<\/a> squad, while the two-man will feature Hall and Lawrence.<\/p>\n Two summer Olympic Games athletes also make the British squad courtesy of Adel\u00e9\u00a0Nicoll, who will compete in both the monobob and two-woman bobsleigh events, while Ashleigh Nelson<\/a>, who made her international debut in the sport just last year, switched to bobsleigh after being approached by shot-putter Nicoll, after an athletics career that saw her travel to Beijing 2008<\/a> and Tokyo 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n The athletes now join their curling<\/a>,<\/a>\u00a0figure skating<\/a>, short track<\/a> and speed skating<\/a>\u00a0compatriots already selected to compete for Team at\u00a0Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n Curling will be represented by Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan Jnr, Bobby Lammie and Kyle Waddell in the men’s team, with Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Jackson, Sophie Sinclair, Jennifer Dodds and Fay Henderson competing in the women’s edition.<\/p>\n Figure skating will showcase Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, and Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez both in the team and ice dance events, with Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby (team event\/pairs), Kristen Spours (team event\/women’s singles), and Edward Appleby (team event).<\/p>\n Niall Treacy will compete in short track speed skating (men’s 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m) and Ellia Smeding in long track (women’s 1,000m and 1,500m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Ryding and Andrew Musgrave selected for fifth Winter Olympic Games Dave Ryding has been selected for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-253774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}