{"id":427861,"date":"2026-02-16T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:48:07","slug":"gb-chiefs-hail-greatest-winter-olympics-day-after-super-sunday-delivers-two-golds-winter-olympics-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427861\/","title":{"rendered":"GB chiefs hail greatest Winter Olympics day after super Sunday delivers two golds | Winter Olympics 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team GB chiefs have hailed Britain\u2019s greatest day at a Winter Olympics<\/a> after celebrating two gold medals, in the mixed snowboard cross and mixed team skeleton in Milano Cortina.<\/p>\n

Super Sunday started with Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale storming to a surprise victory<\/a> in Livigno, with Bankes dramatically overtaking the French team with four turns remaining to take mixed snowboard cross gold.<\/p>\n

Less than five hours later, Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston added a second British gold<\/a> in the mixed team skeleton in Cortina after Weston overturned a 0.30sec deficit following Stoecker\u2019s run to beat Germany by 0.17sec.<\/p>\n

That result also made Weston, who won gold<\/a> in the individual event on Friday, the joint most decorated British Winter Olympian in history with Lizzy Yarnold. \u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of what I\u2019ve been able to achieve in the past couple of days,\u201d he said. \u201cTo win the first ever team event is absolutely amazing \u2013 and to win it with such a great teammate is the icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team GB\u2019s chef de mission, Eve Muirhead, hailed the gold medals that put Britain into 12th in the table. \u201cGetting two gold medals is just incredible,\u201d she said. \u201cThe most we have ever had in British Olympic Winter history and for Matt, being the most decorated male winter Olympian of all time is something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the team\u2019s overall performance, Muirhead said: \u201cIt was a slightly slow start, we knew that. But we were patient, we kept the vibe up. We kept very positive because we knew we were going to have opportunities to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not quite a perfect day for Team GB, however. Mia Brookes was seen as the snowboard slopestyle favourite, having won the world title as a 16-year-old. But she fell on both her runs in qualifying, finishing 16th overall, and misses out on the final on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team GB chiefs have hailed Britain\u2019s greatest day at a Winter Olympics after celebrating two gold medals, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-427861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427861","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=427861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}