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Winter Olympics 2022 - What are the differences between bobsleigh, luge and skeleton and why is the monobob women-only?
Part of the Winter Olympics’ appeal is the huge variety of sports and events on show. At one end of the spectrum is the strategic, slow-burning, tactical battle of curling. Ad/> At the opposite end are the ice sliding sports which see daredevil riders hurling themselves down a winding ice track on tray-like sleds at 90mph.
WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 - Marcus Wyatt 'doesn't know what went wrong' after finishing 16th in the skeleton
Team GB's Marcus Wyatt was at a loss to explain his 16th-place finish in the skeleton at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. With teammate Matt Weston finishing in 15th, it was a surprisingly poor showing and with the women — Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley — also struggling in their event, the probability is that Team GB will return home without a medal in the skeleton — the first time that has ever happened since the sport's reintroduction as an Olympic event in 2002. Ad/> 30-year-old Wyatt — a debut Olympian — found it hard to see past his overriding disappointment in the aftermath.
Ukrainian Olympian flashes 'No War in Ukraine' sign after competing
A Ukrainian skeleton athlete flashed a small sign that read "No War in Ukraine" to the cameras as he finished a run at the Beijing Olympics on Friday night, a plea for peace at a time of rising tensions between his country and Russia.
Winter Olympics: Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych holds up 'No War' sign
A Ukrainian athlete displayed an anti-war sign during the men's skeleton event at the Beijing Winter Games amid increasing tensions on Ukraine's border with Russia.
Today at the Winter Olympics: Skeleton woe for GB and mixed fortunes for curlers
Great Britain suffered skeleton misery on day seven of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
British athletes pick the bones out of dismal skeleton campaign at Beijing 2022
Great Britain’s 20-year run of Winter Olympic skeleton success is over after a dismal series of results in Yanqing on Friday.
