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Thursday, 15 February 2018

Winter Olympics: GB's Dom Parsons fourth after two runs of skeleton


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Dom Parsons put himself in contention to win Great Britain's first medal of the 2018 Winter Olympics at the halfway stage of the men's skeleton.

The 30-year-old is fourth, 0.03 seconds behind Latvia's Martins Dukurs, after setting a combined time of one minute 41.26 seconds in Pyeongchang.

South Korea's Yun Sung-bin leads on 1:40.35, with Nikita Tregubov, an Olympic Athlete from Russia, second and Briton Jerry Rice 12th.

The competition finishes on Friday.

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Other British news on day six

    Elise Christie says she will "still be racing fearless" at the Winter Olympics despite falling in the 500m short-track speed skating final.
    Great Britain's men earned their second round-robin win with a tense 6-5 victory against Japan, while the women lost 7-4 to the United States in their second match.

Source: BBC NEWS

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