Skills on snow and ice

As the cold weather continues over the next few months, Team GB’s winter athletes will be competing on snow and ice. Events such as bobsleigh, curling, skating, skeleton and snowboarding will be contested in freezing locations around Europe, the US, Canada and China. Matt Weston is one of the world’s best in the high-speed sport of skeleton. In this event, athletes run at the top of a steep ice track to build up speed before jumping on a sled and sliding down the track as fast as possible. Weston was the men’s skeleton World Cup champion last season and he hopes to repeat that in 2024–25. Great Britain has another top talent in the women’s skeleton. Freya Tarbit won gold at a World Cup event for the first time last…

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