Beijing Olympics 2022 - Charlotte Bankes, Dave Ryding among 21 Team GB ski and snowboard athletes selected

World champion Charlotte Bankes leads a contingent of 21 ski and snowboard athletes who have been picked to represent Team GB at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The 26-year-old will be competing at her third Games but her first for GB, having represented France in the previous two.

Nine athletes will be making their Olympic debuts, including teenagers Zoe Atkin and Kirsty Muir, who have excelled this season. Ad/> Izzy Atkin, Britain’s first Olympic skiing medallist by winning bronze at Pyeongchang 2018, is selected for freestyle slopestyle and big air, despite breaking her pelvis just over a month ago.

Beijing 2022A-list line-up of winter sport stars to lead Discovery’s Beijing 2022 coverage across EuropeA DAY AGO Skier-turned-actor Gus Kenworthy makes his GB Olympic debut in his final Games, after the Sochi 2014 ski slopestyle silver medallist moved across to the country of his mother’s birth having represented the USA for most of his career. He is joined by James 'Woodsy' Woods, who is attempting to return to the same form which earned him the world title in 2019.

Alpine skier Dave Ryding, who recorded a fifth place slalom finish at a World Cup event in Val d’Isere in December, will compete in his fourth Olympics, as will Nordic skiers Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young. 'I was probably going to give up' — Olympic medal hope Bankes on how GB revitalised career ‘I guess I just look really good in red, white and blue’ — Ski star Kenworthy on switch to GB Team GB medal hope Atkin hoping for Olympic miracle after breaking pelvis Katie Ormerod will finally make her Olympic competition debut in the snowboard slopestyle and big air, after injury cruelly robbed her of a place on the startline four years ago, when she broke her