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'We don’t want a smaller bobsleigh family' - German Francesco Friedrich funds rival team Austria

German bobsledder Francesco Friedrich — who is the most successful pilot in World Cup history — says he helped Austrian rider Benjamin Maier with financial support to avoid the “bobsleigh family” getting smaller. The pair will be rivals on the track when they compete for Olympic success in Beijing. Ad/> In fact, Maier was just 0.2 seconds slower than Friedrich in the two-man training heats, but he may not have been able to compete had it not been for the German.

Olympic Games 2022: How to watch Quentin Fillon Maillet, Guillaume Cizeron, Gabriella Papadakis, and Team France

France have one gold and five silver medals after ten days of competition at Beijing 2022.

Irish skier Jack Gower makes history, Team GB reveal bobsleigh mind games, Norway's trouser trouble - Beijing diary

BRITS ADMIT THEY ARE PLAYING GAMES British bobsleigh driver Brad Hall — a World Cup podium regular — claims he's not go his game face on after finishing outside the top ten in the first day of training for the two-man competition. Ad/> «A lot of people are playing games, we are saving our kit for race day,» he said.

How to watch Republic of Korea at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022

Republic of Korea are 15th in the medal table with one gold medal after nine days of competition at Beijing 2022.

Winter Olympics 2022 - Don’t panic! Team GB could still achieve record medal haul, despite disappointment for Bankes

At every Olympics, summer or winter, there is nervousness about where the first British medal is coming from. When two of the favourites miss out on the podium — that’s when the panic really sets in. That might be where we are at on day five, after world champion Charlotte Bankes was unable to progress past the quarter-finals of snowboard cross, 24 hours after Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds missed out on mixed doubles curling bronze.

Winter Olympics medal count: Who is winning Beijing 2022 so far?

The Winter Olympics 2022 medal table is up for grabs in Beijing and Norway are the favourites to top the charts once more, having pipped Germany to top spot four years ago in Pyeongchang. Both nations won 14 gold medals in Korea, but Norway’s greater total of 39 medals overall gave them the edge over Germany, who won 31.

Emotional Team GB curlers react as gold medal hopes vanish at Winter Olympics

Great Britain’s mixed doubles curling team missed the chance to guarantee at least a silver medal as they dropped into the bronze-medal match after losing 6-5 to Norway in a tense semi-final at the Winter Olympics.

Harrogate-born Axel Brown out to ink Trinidad and Tobago into bobsleigh history

Featuring a pilot from the genteel spa town of Harrogate and a brake-man who had never been in a bobsleigh until last Wednesday, Trinidad and Tobago are intent on giving the boys from ‘Cool Runnings’ a run for their money.

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'We don’t want a smaller bobsleigh family' - German Francesco Friedrich funds rival team Austria

Olympic Games 2022: How to watch Quentin Fillon Maillet, Guillaume Cizeron, Gabriella Papadakis, and Team France

Irish skier Jack Gower makes history, Team GB reveal bobsleigh mind games, Norway's trouser trouble - Beijing diary

How to watch Republic of Korea at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022

Winter Olympics 2022 - Don’t panic! Team GB could still achieve record medal haul, despite disappointment for Bankes

Winter Olympics medal count: Who is winning Beijing 2022 so far?

Emotional Team GB curlers react as gold medal hopes vanish at Winter Olympics

Harrogate-born Axel Brown out to ink Trinidad and Tobago into bobsleigh history