Charlotte Bankes exited the Beijing Winter Olympics with out a medal after ending fifth within the combined group snowboard-cross competitors with team-mate Huw Nightingale at Genting Snow Park on Saturday.
The 26-year-old Bankes arrived within the Chinese language capital as reigning world champion and considered one of Britain’s finest medal hopes however fluffed her strains within the particular person occasion and was knocked out within the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Bankes additionally missed out in her second probability regardless of her and Nightingale efficiently negotiating their preliminary quarter-final warmth of the occasion, through which the ladies observe the boys with handicapped start-times.
Bankes recovered a deficit of 1 and half seconds to win her quarter-final warmth however couldn’t repeat the feat within the semi-final, earlier than recovering to complete second within the ‘small remaining’ to safe the fifth-place end.
Bankes admitted the frustration of the person occasion nonetheless weighed closely on her thoughts.
“I’m not fairly over it however I’ve been popping out right here with the group immediately and the group’s labored amazingly properly to get me again on it,” she stated.
“It was good motivation to simply have a great race immediately and never give attention to what’s occurred beforehand.”
Lindsey Jacobellis (left) gained her second gold of the Beijing Video games (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Lindsey Jacobellis gained her second gold medal of the Video games as she teamed up with Nick Baumgartner to beat Italy over the road, with the Canadian duo recovering after an early fall to take the bronze medal.
It capped a outstanding Video games for 36-year-old Jacobellis, who made up for her near-miss on the 2006 Olympics in Turin by successful the person occasion, and even had time to carry out her trademark board-grab – the identical transfer that value her gold 16 years in the past – on her remaining soar.
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