Team GB enjoyed one of its most successful days in Winter Olympic history on Sunday, claiming two gold medals in quick succession through mixed team events and turning Milan-Cortina into an unexpected showcase for British winter sport.<\/p>\n
The breakthrough arrived first in the heights of the Alps in the mixed snowboard cross. Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale were one of four teams in the final, after a frenetic day which saw 16 teams whittled down on a course that tests reaction time, and, naturally, balance — to a cruel level of unforgiveness.<\/p>\n
Falling off one’s board aside, one overcorrected jump may cost athletes enough time that even a flawless run from their partner would not be enough to make it up.<\/p>\n
Both athletes headed into Sunday’s team event after disappointing individual runs. Bankes exited in the quarterfinals, and Nightingale finished last in his last-16 heat. But there was no time to stew on previous shortcomings.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale captured gold at the Winter Olympics.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
Nightingale, who ran first in the mixed event, finished just 0.14 seconds behind Loan Bozzolo of France — meaning Bankes’ gate opened 0.14s after that of her rival Lea Casta. Approaching 70 km\/h, she executed the overtake to finish first and start the party in the British camp.<\/p>\n
By winning two golds in a single Winter Games, 2026 had already been the greatest ever for Team GB in this department.<\/p>\n
When attention shifted back to the Cortina Sliding Centre — where Matt Weston had already been bestowed legendary status with his singles win on Friday — there was more glory to come.<\/p>\n
– Winter Olympics: Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale take gold for Great Britain in mixed snowboard cross Weston and Tabitha Stoecker, making her debut in these Games, flew to another stunning victory.<\/p>\n It was Britain vs. Germany on the track custom built for 2026, as Susanne Kreher and Axel Jungk posted a blistering 1:59:53.<\/p>\n In her final run, Stoecker left Weston needing to find 0.3 seconds after a late mistake.<\/p>\n But Weston, daring and majestic, delivered a track record to take Britain’s second gold of the day, and a third in 48 hours.<\/p>\n Spare a thought for Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit, who were pushed out of the medals by their compatriots.<\/p>\n Yet, for a nation without a purpose-built ice track (athletes prepare on a 140m course at the University of Bath) and seemingly only enough snow to get commutes delayed, today’s stunning result might just be a winter watershed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team GB enjoyed one of its most successful days in Winter Olympic history on Sunday, claiming two gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-427645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
–<\/a> As curling surveillance grows, Team GB latest to face infraction<\/a><\/p>\nMatt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker flew to a stunning victory in the mixed team skeleton.\u00a0Photo by Andrew Milligan\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n