/ 14 February 2022

Our most successful Winter Games

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

Fancy hurtling face-first down a 2km ice tunnel at almost 130km/hour on a little trolley? Nope… But that’s what Brisvegas’s own Jackie Narracott did on Saturday to win a silver medal in the women’s skeleton – our first medal of any colour in the event. Aussie chef de mission Geoff Lipshut said the love story between Narracott and her husband/coach Dom Parsons, a bronze medallist in the same event for Britain in 2018, was behind her success. And since we last spoke, snowboarder Scotty James won silver in the halfpipe final – he won bronze in the same event 4 years ago. James was in the lead until Japan’s Ayumu Hirano outscored him on the last run of the day. Looking to today, aerial skier/flag-bearer Laura Peel will attempt to pull off the triple-twisting triple-backflip (aka a ‘full-full-full‘, as they say on the slopes). Keep an eye out for her and teammate Danielle Scott. Australia now has 4 medals making it our best-ever medal tally for a Winter Games.

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