Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Greg Rutherford misses out on selection as Team GB confirm bobsleigh crews

Greg Rutherford has missed out on selection for Beijing 2022 after Team GB confirmed their bobsleigh units for the Winter Olympics. The London 2012 long jump champion had launched an ambitious attempt to also compete at a Winter Games, an effort that will be charted in a discovery+ documentary to be aired in the build-up to Beijing.

Ad/> However the 35-year-old will not be at the Olympics, with pilot Brad Hall and his regular crew rewarded for strong World Cup form and travelling to China right among the medal contenders. Beijing 2022Jamaica's bobsleigh team qualify for the Winter Olympics in three events17/01/2022 AT 18:36 Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Nick Gleeson and Greg Cackett are the chosen male quartet, with Ben Simons travelling as an alternate, while Hall and Gleeson will take on two-man duties, with Cackett in the reserve role.

There will be one former Summer Olympian part of the British team — former sprinter Montell Douglas returns to Beijing 14 years on as part of the 2-women bob alongside captain and former Youth Olympic silver medallist Mica McNeill. Adele Nicoll is the alternate.

“I’m honoured to be selected to represent Team GB again and I know the rest of my crew feel exactly the same," said Hall, whose quartet have thrice secured silver medals in the 2021-22 World Cup season. «We’ve had a great season so far and we’re hoping to carry that momentum into the Games.

“We said at the start of the season that we wanted to be competing with the best in the world on a consistent basis and we’ve shown that we can do that. The boys have regularly been among the best starters in the world, too, and we’re heading to Beijing full of confidence.» While Francesco Friedrich's dominant German unit will travel to Beijing as