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Winter Olympics: Katherine Grainger insists 'huge disappointments' for Team GB will be catalyst for change

British athletes failed to win a medal until the penultimate day of Beijing 2022 as Bruce Mouat and Eve Muirhead’s curlers salvaged a misfiring campaign with silver and gold.

UK Sport had set an ambitious target of three to seven medals at the Games after British athletes had bagged five in PyeongChang four years ago.

Several sports – including skeleton, snowboarding and skiing – underperformed in the Chinese capital but UK Sport chair Grainger says the setbacks will bring about a much-needed shake-up ahead of the Games in four years’ time.

The five-time Olympic rowing medallist, 46, said: “I do think we'll come back stronger because of this.

“It's a horrible thing to say but, having done it as an athlete, those huge disappointments are where you have the biggest opportunity to learn.

“We will learn big lessons from this and I think it gives us all an extra bit of hunger.”

UK Sport had invested major sums of money into Team GB’s preparation for the Games, including over £200,000 via a Beijing Support Fund for sports not in receipt of World Class Programme funding.

Figure skating, speed skating, luge and bobsleigh were among the key beneficiaries as UK Sport aim to diversify British medal-winning potential and enhance the UK’s winter sports fortunes.

How funding will change throughout the next four-year cycle remains unclear and Grainger hopes a full review of British performances will help inform which sports receive more backing ahead of 2026.

She added: “We will make our big investment decisions around the summer, and the main thing is for all the sports individually to go into a review process of not just the Games itself but also the last four years to see what worked, what didn’t work, and what can be improved.

“Cur

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