Elise Christie claims her third short track speed skating World Cup gold medal of the season while Great Britain's men's ice hockey team win their second 2018 Winter Olympics pre-qualifier. Here's our review of the last 24 hours.
European champion Elise Christie admits it’s all about building towards next month’s World Short Track Speed Skating Championships after picking up her third individual World Cup gold of the season in Dordrecht.
Christie, who secured gold and silver at last weekend’s penultimate World Cup in Dresden, took the lead with two laps to go of the 1000m final.
And it proved to be a crucial move as she eventually crossed the line first in 1:30.616 minutes ahead of South Korea’s Minjeong Choi and Canada’s Jamie Macdonald.
It was enough for Choi to extend her lead in the overall World Cup classification for the distance although for Christie, the victory was another boost ahead of the World Championships in Seoul from March 11-13.
"I'm really pleased with my current form and the way I am racing,” said Christie, who is yet to pick up a world title with three silvers and a bronze in recent years.
“The results over the last couple of weeks are helping me build my confidence looking towards the upcoming World Championships.”
Great Britain’s men’s ice hockey head coach Pete Russell is relishing playing Italy in their final 2018 Winter Olympics pre-qualifier after beating Serbia 6-2.
Russell’s men scored six goals for the second match running as the GB team look to qualify for the Olympics for the first time since 1948.
GB beat Netherlands 6-5 in their opening match in Cortina, Italy, and now face the hosts on Sunday, with only the group winners moving on to the final stage of qualifying in September.
"One of the best things is we scored six goals again,” Russell said.
"We have got a lot of guys scoring at the moment and that is really good for us. We came here to be in this position and I am very much looking forward to Italy."
Great Britain opened the scoring against Serbia after just four minutes and 28 seconds through Colin Shields, who netted his 34th international goal.
Nenad Rakovic and Uros Bjelogrlic both equalised for Serbia either side of Matty Davies’s good finish.
But GB then moved clear as David Phillips put them back in front and David Clarke bagged a couple before Robert Lachowicz rounded off the scoring in the final minute.
Team GB’s curlers enjoyed mixed fortunes on day two of the Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games while elsewhere the alpine skiing and ice hockey skills challenge got underway.
The curlers were looking to follow up their impressive opening night 9-2 victory over Korea but fell just short against a strong Canadian outfit, going down 4-2 despite having been level going into the eighth and final end.
However, the quartet of Ross Whyte, Amy Bryce, Callum Kinnear and Mili Smith were quick to return to winning ways and did so in style, seeing off Brazil 21-0.
“We made our shots against Brazil and played much better as a team,” said Bryce.
“It was important to win after the Canada game to help our chances to get through to the knock-outs.”
Susie Gilbert struck the only goal of the game as Great Britain’s women beat Australia 1-0 in Bunbury to level their six-test hockey series with Australia.
From an 18th-minute penalty corner, Gilbert reacted quickest to the rebound from a Crista Cullen flick to slot home her 15th international goal and despite late pressure from the hosts, GB held on.
That levels the series at 1-1 following Australia’s 4-3 triumph earlier in the week while match three will be played in Sydney at 10am GMT on Tuesday.
Christopher Baker moved to third on the all-time British indoor high jump list with a huge personal best at the Hustopece Indoor Championships in the Czech Republic.
Baker registered a jump of 2.36m – a full 8cm better than his previous best – to finish second at the event behind Gianmarco Tamberi, who broke the Italian national record en route to victory.
The 25-year-old was only two centimetres short of Steve Smith’s British indoor record of 2.38m while Dalton Grant soared over 2.37m back in 1994.
Mica McNeill and Natalie DeRatt narrowly missed out on a top-ten spot at the Bobsleigh World Championships as they finished 12th in Igls, Austria.
With McNeill piloting, the duo clocked a combined time of 3:34.97 minutes over their four runs, which meant they finished 2.59 seconds behind winners Anja Schneiderheinze and Annika Drazek.
Schneiderheinze had won gold as a push athlete back in 2005 but this time piloted the German pair to glory while McNeill and DeRatt were unable to build on a first run which saw them post their fastest time.
Sportsbeat 2016