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Why GB are 'positive' despite just one medal at Winter Paralympics

BBC News·@Bbc·2 months ago
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Neil Simpson (left) and guide Rob Poth (right) won Great Britain's only medal of the Paralympics As Neil Simpson straddled a gate at the start of his slalom run on Sunday, it perhaps summed up just how tricky these Winter Paralympics have been for Great Britain. With just one medal won - a silver for Simpson and his guide Rob Poth in the visually impaired alpine combined - it marks the team's worst finish from a Winter Games since Vancouver 2010, when they came home empty-handed. At every edition in the interim, GB have won at least six medals, and with just over £7m ploughed into the sports on the Winter Paralympic programme over the past four years by UK Sport, questions can rightly be asked. But the highs of previous Games were never expected to be achieved this time around.…

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