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30 Jan - First Winter Youth Olympics Success
The British Olympic Association sent 24 young athletes from 10 winter Olympic disciplines to compete for Team GB at the first winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which took place in Innsbruck, Austria, last month and was a great success. It was the third Olympics hosted by the capital of the Tirol, making it the first city to host three Olympics.
Team GB’s athletes, aged 14-18, competed alongside over 1,000 of the best young winter sport athletes from around the world in all seven sports on the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games programme.
Team GB won a gold and two silver medals at the Olympics. On the last day of competition, Mica McNeill and Jazmin Sawyers won silver in the two-person bobsleigh, on the same track that witnessed Olympic gold for Team GB's Robin Dixon and Anthony Nash in 1964.
On Saturday Jack Burrows won gold and Aydin Djemal silver in the short track speed skating 3000m mixed nation team relay.
