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Centre Stage for Funky Snowboarders Sports FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014 SOCHI WINTER OLYMPICS Britain hopes for ‘coming of age’ in Sochi LONDON: Eighteen months on from the nationwide than any other winter campaign,” says Liz Nicholl, the With the heady sporting summer of 2012 still fresh euphoria of the 2012 London Olympics, Britain har- chief executive of funding body UK Sport. in the national memory, those competing in Sochi bors high hopes of breaking new ground at the Winter “We want at least three medals and that would be have noticed a spike in public support. “I love that Games in Sochi. Britain’s temperate climate makes it our best Olympic performance since 1936. This is the everyone’s supporting me-it’s really flattering,” ill-suited to winter sports, which tend to be considered first coming of age of the Winter Olympic and slopestyle skier James Wood told the Daily Telegraph. something of a novelty in the country. While Jane Paralympic teams.” Jenny Jones has already made his- “It’s a testament to Great Britain that people are gen- Torvill and Christopher Dean rose to national promi- tory, having become the first Briton to win an Olympic uinely interested in Team GB. It makes me so proud to nence after winning gold in the ice dancing at the medal in a snow event when she took bronze in the be British. London 2012 was amazing. I went and it 1984 Winter Olympics, almost as fondly remembered snowboard slopestyle. The novelty of the discipline was great to be a part of it.” Hoping that Britons are is hapless ski jumper Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards. So was not quite to everyone’s taste in Britain, however, ready to rekindle their Olympic love affair, the BBC longsighted that he had to wear glasses while com- with broadcaster the BBC receiving more than 300 promised “the most complete digital coverage of a peting, even though they fogged so much that he complaints over its television coverage of the event. Winter Games to date”. could not see, Edwards finished last in both his events Fellow British snowboarder Aimee Fuller was invit- The organization will broadcast 1,200 hours of live at the 1988 Games in Calgary, but his ineptitude made ed to provide co-commentary on the slopestyle final, and catch-up video coverage of the event over its vari- him a household name. but she contravened usual BBC decorum by cheering ous platforms and has sent 95 staff to Sochi 21 more However, buoyed by the success of the London exuberantly when one of Jones’s rivals fell. Jones’s tri- than made the trip to Vancouver four years ago. Games, when the hosts finished third in the medals umph was nonetheless splashed across newspaper Britain has, however, led protests over Russia’s contro- table, the British team has been set a target of collect- front pages and belief in a record medal haul is strong, versial law banning the dissemination of “gay propa- ing between three and seven medals in Sochi. Britain with Lizzy Yarnold leading the charge as one of the ganda” to minors, with prominent gay comedian and has not won three medals at a Winter Olympics since favorites in the skeleton. Yarnold is bidding to succeed writer Stephen Fry calling for a boycott of the Games. the 1936 event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but a countrywoman Amy Williams, who retired after tri- The BBC’s coverage of the event is fronted by a gay record £14 million ($22.8 million, 16.9 million euros) umphing at the 2010 Games in Vancouver, while woman, Clare Balding, who said: “I think the best way investment in winter sports has raised team-mate Shelley Rudman, a silver-medalist in 2006, of enlightening societies that are not as open-minded expectations.”This squad will be better supported is another contender. as our own is not to be cowed into submission.” —AFP Fun - centre stage for Love in air for soulmates on funky snowboarders Olympic slopes SOCHI: Love is in the air at the Winter Olympics, where the balmy weather at ROSA KHUTOR: There may be Olympic dethroned her, American Kaitlyn It’s not just the women getting all the sub-tropical showpiece is not the only thing that’s getting hotter. On the titles, gold medals and perhaps even Farrington. “Every day I get to snow- emotional and gushy about snowboard- eve of Valentine’s Day, wedding plans are being made and hints of love mega sponsorship deals at stake in board is a wonderful day and to be able ing the men were at it too following affairs denied. There’s even a phone app available to help track down your Sochi but for snowboarders it remains to-four years later-be loving snowboard- Saturday’s slopestyle final. US winner soulmate on the slopes. Chinese veteran figure skaters Pang Qing and Tong all about the fun. Snowboarding is the ing like I was four years ago, and be back Sage Kotsenburg, 20, said his fellow Jian, silver medalists at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, were fourth in the pairs rebellious younger cousin among winter on the podium with an incredible group medalists, Norway’s Staale Sandbech competition on Wednesday and immediately turned their thoughts to mar- sports where athletes not only dress dif- of girls is a wonderful feeling,” said and Mark McMorris of Canada, were riage. Pang and Tong, both 34, who started skating together as six-year-olds, ferently, in baggy clothes, and often Bright. among his best friends. “All of us were are a couple off the ice, having become engaged when Tong proposed dur- wear their hair long and bedraggled but For American bronze medalist Kelly having a blast in there and you could ing an ice show in China. even have their own language, meaning Clark, the winner in Salt Lake City 12 see us high-fiving at the bottom,” he “We haven’t planned our ceremony yet, as we’ve been focused on our said. “It’s not like we’re bummed out training. Now it’s time for us to think about it,” said Tong after the pair’s per- when other people come down and formance to “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables. They are following land a ride, we’re equally as stoked for in the footsteps of 2010 Olympic pairs champion Zhao Hongbo, who is back the next person to land a ride.” Even in Sochi as a coach with the Chinese team. He and former pairs partner Shen controversies over the scoring have not Xue are married and had a baby in September. Elsewhere at the Iceberg served to dampen the feel-good factor. Palace arena, skaters are losing themselves in tender embraces to rousing When asked whether she had any soundtracks from “Phantom of the Opera”, “Jesus Christ Superstar” and, qualms about the scoring having come appropriately enough, “Romeo and Juliet”. so close to a second successive gold, Not that brooding entanglement on the ice means a romantic flourish off Bright seemed unflustered. “You know it. Canada’s Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch delighted with their these judged sports, it’s just so hard. To be honest I think (Wednesday) was one bubbly performance in the pairs final where every loop and twist was accom- of hardest events I’ve been in for a long panied by warm smiles. The pair tightly grasped each other’s hand as they time,” she said. “It’s about the sport of came off the ice. “It’s an interesting relationship because there’s never been snowboarding and putting on a great anything off the ice for Dylan and I but I think what we have is so special, in a show, and we did that. “Win, lose or sense better than that,” said Moore-Towers. draw, it doesn’t matter the color of the medal, we’re united as shredding Great working relationship- babes.” “We have a great working relationship and we enjoy what we do and Not everyone was quite so gracious. we’re able to leave it at the rink at the end of the day.” However, Valentine’s Hannah Teter, the champion in Turin in Day in Sochi could be an icy one for curling couple Xu Xiaoming of China KRASNAYA POLYANA: Australia’s Russell Henshaw crashes on his sec- 2006, missed out on a medal by just 0.25 and his South Korean wife Kim Ji-Sun with the women’s teams from the two ond run in the men’s ski slopestyle final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme points-the narrowest possible gap and countries set to clash. “Through curling we have a lot of interaction with the Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics yesterday. —AP she could not hide her disappointment. Chinese female team, so I would be very happy if they won,” said 29-year- “I’m not super stoked on the judging. I old Xu, who plays on the men’s team. The South Korean men’s team did not they’re “stoked” when they win after years ago, what makes snowboarding thought I should have a higher score. qualify for Sochi so, unlike her husband, Kim, 26, has no loyalty issues. performing a “sick” run. stand apart is the ability of athletes to What are you going to do about FIS “Of course I would cheer for the Korean team, because those are my And it seems when it comes to com- be competitors and friends at the same (International Ski Federation) judging? countrymen,” she said. “But I would at the same time be cheering for China petition, they’re not all that bothered time.
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