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Eve Muirhead and Dave Ryding will share flag-bearing duties for Great Britain at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the famous ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium on Friday.
World Cup winning alpine skier Dave Ryding and Sochi 2014 curling bronze medallist Eve Muirhead have been selected as Team GB’s flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. They will carry the union flag into the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, as the second pair chosen by Britain to do so following a switch to one male and one female athlete for Tokyo 2020.
As Team GB’s youngest Winter Olympic athlete in Beijing, freestyle skier Kirsty Muir is taking things in her stride — even if she is getting a little bit of extra attention. The 17-year-old goes into the Games as a contender to win a medal, despite having one eye on finishing school, where she is studying chemistry, history and PE.
Dave Ryding says there is nothing particularly special about him, describing himself as “not some kind of superhuman”, despite becoming Britain’s first ever alpine skiing World Cup winner. The 35-year-old is preparing for his fourth Olympic Games after making British sporting history when he won the slalom title in Kitzbuhel recently, an achievement which has seen his profile rise to higher than it has ever been before. Ad/> The reaction has left Ryding “exhausted” and “pumped” in equal measure.
Kirsty Muir’s appetite for air-time led her to turn her back on “boring” alpine pursuits and commit to the ramps and rails that could see her soar into medal contention at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Dave Ryding ended last week on top of the skiing world only to be brought back down to earth with a bump three days later. In Kitzbuehel on Saturday, the 35-year-old from Pendle became the first Brit to win an alpine skiing World Cup event, claiming victory in the slalom on the legendary slopes in Austria. Ad/> By Tuesday, Ryding was not even the fastest Brit on the circuit, beaten by training partner Billy Major a couple of hours down the road in Schladming, with Major 18th and Ryding 20th.
Dave Ryding ended last week on top of the skiing world only to be brought back down to earth with a bump three days later. In Kitzbuehel on Saturday, the 35-year-old from Pendle became the first Brit ever to win an alpine skiing World Cup event, claiming victory in the slalom on the legendary slopes in Austria. Ad/> By Tuesday Ryding was not even the fastest Brit on the circuit, beaten by training partner Billy Major a couple of hours down the road in Schladming, with Major 18th and Ryding 20th.
Thirty-four years and 17 British medals have passed since ‘Eddie the Eagle’ crashed and burned in Calgary, but Laura Deas continues to revel in the hapless ski jumper’s Winter Olympic legacy.