Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker clinched mixed team skeleton gold.It came after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the snowboard cross mixed team event earlier on Sunday.Weston produced a stunning race to make more of his own history in Cortina - he is the first Briton to win two gold medals at a Winter Olympics having claimed individual gold just two days ago.Stoecker, 25, had given Weston a tough task with her run of 1:00.77, 0.30 seconds off the pace of the Germans, with the British pair - ranked top seeds - the last to run."The individual event is amazing but doing it as a team when we're normally an individual sport is amazing," said Weston."To have my team-mate by my side as Olympic champions, two-time for me which is crazy. I'm looking forward to the celebrations!"A second British team, Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit, missed out on a medal by an agonising 0.01secs as the two German teams of Christopher Grotheer and Jacqueline Pfeifer and Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher took silver and bronze, respectively.https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cm2x7m17jydo
I don't understand how this is history but BBC doesn't lie
>>1489568>he is the first Briton to win two gold medals at a Winter Olympics having claimed individual gold just two days ago.
>>1489587Wow and Michael Phelps won like 8 per Olympics lmao
skeleton isn't even a real sport and russias skeleton riders weren't allowed to compete
>>1489588Yes, but he's American.
>>1489688So what? Americans are the best at setting records
>>1489561That's an English flag not a British flag
>>1489561>mixed team skeletonSound like something Bongs would win.
It doesn't snow in Great Britain. Brits are only good at football and rugby and silly walks
>>1489689>Americans are the best at setting records>US's Lance Armstrong: world's biggest cycling hypocriteChris Boardman on his Lotus-engineered bike in 1992 Barcelona. Since Chris Hoy in 2008 Beijing, UK dominates cycling.
>>1489740Lmao ok uk, good job dominating "cycling" You're our special little bitch we're so proud of you
>>1489746Good job America, being UK's bitch in cycling, lol>new events>first gold in women's boxing: 2012 London>first gold in mixed skeleton & snowboard cross: 2026 Milano-CortinaAmerica will never be first in those, kek
>>1489774Yeah all those mountains in the UK are going to ensure you're great at snowboard crossAnd our women don't have to fight, they have real men to do that for them
>>1489776>Mutts can't win first golds in new events>Mutts can't have women who can do boxingI never thought that inferiority was some sort of flex, but you do you.
>>1489793>>1489793Chronologically first means nothing. See: your empire
>>1489794Chronologically, second means less than nothing.>Trump's bluster & ego, but TACOSee: your empireAgain, there's that inferiority flex.
>>1489795Agreed, chronology isn't important all that matters is America will be hegemon for the entirety of our life spans, at the very least. You will never know a world where America doesn't dominate you.Enjoy your countryside being forcibly desgregated lmao
>>1489799>desgregatedEnjoy your illiteracy, kekYou will never know a Winter Olympics where a Scandinavian country doesn't dominate you. Nor will America dominate in Cycling. Or winning new events.
>>1489568"An Olympic gold medal on snow has long seemed like the impossible for Team GB's winter athletes. One hundred and two years, to be exact."That's why it's history they've never even won before and they won twice this time
>>1489805>That's why it's history they've never even won before>never even won>neverI'll take 'Who is Lizzy Yarnold and what medal did she win for which country, and who won silver for which country in what event at 2014 Sochi?' for $400, Alex.It's your credibility that's history, anon.
>>1489561The brits can have the Olympics as far as I'm concerned. We keep sending anti-American athletes that are more interested in talking shit about the nation PAYING THEM TO BE THERE than they are winning. So fuck 'em. >>1489774>Good job America, being UK's bitch in cycling, lolNow do football (hand-egg?) next. And I'm not even saying it like you can't. I want you to beat the NFL so we stop paying billions of dollars on blacks just so they can kneel for the national anthem.
>>1489746>Special relationshipNot after trump>>1489811You're arguing with a quote from the bbc, take it up with them not me. Looks like their point was you never won any of the snow events before, only ice?
>>1489812>weI want you to personally play for Team USA in 2028 Los Angeles. In Baseball. Against Cuba.>guess which country has won gold at Baseball three times out of the six Olympics it's been included inhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_at_the_2028_Summer_Olympics>we stop paying billions of dollars on blacks just so they can kneel for the national anthem>blacksI guess Team USA will be having the Compton Cricket Club playing for them.
>>1489813>That's why it's history they've never even won before and they won twice this timeBBC doesn't lie, but >>1489805 does
>>1489817https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c1kgm079jrroCool story bro the headline is literally "Why first gold on snow has been just a matter of time"You don't have to take my word for it. UK took over a century to win on snow lmao
>>1489820>Why first new event gold on snow...hasn't been won by USA if they're supposed to be so superior to all other countries, yet are inferior to Norway & Italy at 2026 Milano-Cortina, lol>losing to Japan at Baseball in 2021 Tokyo>not even a bronze at Baseball in 1992 BarcelonaThe odds aren't looking good for you.
>>1489827Holy shit that triggered you so hard. I love that you gave me this power over your emotions.Our baseball players don't play in the Olympics, they make too much money to risk injury in a non-competitive event. Keep calm and carry on rageposting I guess lmao
>>1489561It's not Team UK it's Team GB
>>1489829>USA not winning in a new event, and are inferior to Norway & ItalyHoly shit, that triggered you even harder. I love how you're such a snowflake when your inferiority is called out, kek
>>1489829>Our baseball players don't play in the Olympicshttps://www.mlb.com/news/every-mlb-team-s-best-olympianReality just keeps on proving opinions wrong
>>1489830Whatever they're called it took 102 years lmao
>>1489838Yes that's every teams best player that was shit enough to risk in the Olympics. The best players on the Team don't go, they make too much money. The shit players that need the paycheck go.Don't make me bring up the Ashes of your empire, britboi
>>1489843>Asheshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AshesYou'll never win that, even in Cricket at 2028 Los Angeles. Just as your chances are slim against another bat & ball game against Cuba. No 'Our baseball players don't play in the Olympics, they make too much money to risk injury in a non-competitive event' excuses allowed. They don't think much of their own country, then. A professional baseball player - Eddy Alvarez - represented USA in short track speed skating at 2014 Sochi, so nobody else has the right to any excuses.>MAGA EmpireWhich crumbled to dust before it started. TACO. Many such cases.
>>1489851Can't even beat your former penal colony in the ashes.Can't beat India in t20Maga never had an empire lmaoYou will die long before America stops running the world. Keep digging up random sports factoids if it helps you cope, I'm done matching your energy. Congratulations to Team England for their first gold medal on snow!
Team Muttland are still inferior to Norway & Italy in 2026 Milano-Cortina!/sp/ called. They want their inbred village idiot back: you, >>1489853.
>>1489856Congratulations to Norway, Italy, the United States, and everyone else further down the medal totals! Even if your nation can only win one or two medals, the Olympics are all about international cooperation and competition!
Congratulations to Norway & Italy, for being superior to USA
>>1489858Excuuuuuuuse me but the UKs actually won 3 medals already so yeah not just one or two. 3 and the Olympics aren't even over yet. Also America is way bigger and has way more people who can ski and mountains so of course they have a wider talent pool than Britain it barely snows there
>>1489858Why hasn't USA produced an athlete who could at least equal Finland's Lasse Viren in winning 5Km & 10Km golds in two successive Olympics: 1972 Munich & 1976 Montreal?
>>1489865Wow good job to that random Finn from the 70s! I've never heard about him but he seems like he was a great athlete!This thread was supposed to be about how great England is doing in the current Olympics, though...>>1489862Oh my bad, 3.
So why hasn't USA - if they're supposed to be 'superior' to the rest of the world - produced an athlete who could equal Finland's Lasse Viren in winning four 5Km & 10Km golds in two successive Olympics? Why hasn't USA done so, yet another country has?If the Olympics are purely 'all about international cooperation and competition', therefore USA is inferior.
>>1489874Wow I just looked up this Lasse guy you keep talking about, and he's a real hunk!I still prefer Michael Phelps and Jason Kenny though
>he's a real hunk!>hunk!>heI'm only interested in the women at these winter olympics, but thanks for admitting you're a homo 1489876
>>1489909Guess again ;)
No need to guess that 1489876 1489916 is a faggot homo :^)
>>1489919There are two kinds of people in this world, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
>those who can extrapolate from incomplete data...and the faggot 1489876 1489916
>>1489924Two kinds of people are into men, anon. You're getting wooshed hard and I'm laughing
1489935 is a man who's into men, and I'm laughing :)>Two kinds of people are into menTits or back into your closet, faggot
>>1489943Sorry tits are for hubby and unicorns only
1489950 is a G.I.R.L.lol
