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Beijing 2022: Montell Douglas 'honoured' to becoming first British woman to compete at Summer and Winer Games

When Montell Douglas embarks on her first run in the two-women bobsleigh she will have achieved something no British woman has achieved before. Some 14 years after she lined up to run the 100m – coincidentally also in Beijing — Douglas is set to become the first woman to represent GB at both Summer and Winter Games. Ad/> Headline makers have been few and far between for Team GB thus far at these Games, so the 36-year-old’s place in the history books perhaps deserves to more of the spotlight.

Where can Team GB still win a medal at the Winter Olympics?

With just four days left of the Winter Olympics, Team GB are facing the very real possibility of leaving the Games empty-handed for the first time since Albertville in 1992.

Winter Olympics 2022 - Can Team GB get on the medal table? Curling leads hopes for the podium

There may well come a moment at the Winter Olympics where the Team GB medal hopes fade, but we are not there yet. Despite finishing with five medals at the last two Games, there has been disappointment so far at Beijing 2022. World champion Charlotte Bankes was a huge hope in the snowboard slopestyle, but was unable to make it past the quarter-finals, while Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds — the mixed curling world champions — lost in the bronze medal match.

Greg Rutherford says funding is a ‘major issue’ as scrutiny of Team GB’s dearth of Winter Olympics medals ramps up

London 2012 long jump champion Greg Rutherford believes Team GB have the potential to be a successful nation at the Winter Olympics, but not if the level of funding stays the same. Great Britain are yet to get on the medal table at Beijing 2022, after several chances came and went.

Winter Olympics 2022: 'Shown anything is possible' - Emma Carrick-Anderson salutes inspirational Dave Ryding

Dave Ryding has inspired the next generation of British skiers with his meteoric rise in slalom, according to Eurosport expert Emma Carrick-Anderson. Ryding, 35, followed up his historic win in Kitzbuhel with a commendable 13th in the men’s slalom at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday. The Rocket became the first British skier to triumph on the World Cup Alpine skiing circuit in January.

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Beijing 2022: Montell Douglas 'honoured' to becoming first British woman to compete at Summer and Winer Games

Where can Team GB still win a medal at the Winter Olympics?

Winter Olympics 2022 - Can Team GB get on the medal table? Curling leads hopes for the podium

Greg Rutherford says funding is a ‘major issue’ as scrutiny of Team GB’s dearth of Winter Olympics medals ramps up

Winter Olympics 2022: 'Shown anything is possible' - Emma Carrick-Anderson salutes inspirational Dave Ryding

Winter Olympics LIVE: Team GB face ROC in curling after Dave Ryding misses out on medal

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