Edit BBC News
24 Feb 2014
UK Sport says it will increase funding for winter sports following Great Britain's record-equalling Winter Olympic performance in Sochi. Team GB won four medals in Sochi, which matched their total from the inaugural Winter Olympics in 1924 in France ... Continue reading the main story. “We should shed this idea of not being a winter nation ... 1924 ... 1936 ... * Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
Edit BBC News
23 Feb 2014
Great Britain will look at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a significant step forward for winter sport after surpassing the three-medal targe t set by UK Sport ... UK Sport invested £13.4m from lottery and exchequer funding to achieve their goal, but could have earned more podium places ... Four years of toil is done. The long road to Pyeongchang begins now ... 0 ... Total medals ... * Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....(size: 17.7Kb)
Edit BBC News
22 Feb 2014
Skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold has been chosen to carry the Union flag and lead Team GB into Sunday's closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The 25-year-old, winner of one of only 10 gold medals in British Winter Olympic history, was selected by Team GB chief Mike Hay and his deputies ... GB's Winter Olympic champions. 1924. Men (curling). 1936 ... * Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
Edit noodls
21 Feb 2014
(Source. Skate Canada). By. Beverley Smith. Canadian champion Kaetlyn Osmond and national silver medalist Gabby Daleman will have much to remember and much to learn from their Olympic experience in Sochi. Neither quite met their goals ... Sotnikova was the first Russian/Soviet woman to win the Olympic gold medal and only the fourth to win on home ice, following Madge Syers of Britain in 1908, Carol Heiss in 1960 and Sara Hughes in 2002....(size: 5.5Kb)
Edit The Guardian
21 Feb 2014
The days of Curry, Cousins and Torvill and Dean seem a lifetime away – now we lead the medals table for good commentary. Adelina Sotnikova won gold in the women's figure skating final at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Photograph ... It started with Madge Syers, one of the 15 children of a London builder, who won the gold medal in the first Olympic women's singles event, held during the Summer Games in London in 1908 ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)
Edit Sun Sentinel
17 Feb 2014
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Previous winners of the women's individual figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics.. 1908 Madge Syers (Britain). 1912 Not included ... 1932 Henie ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Edit BBC News
14 Feb 2014
Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal in Sochi has cemented Britain's status as the dominant power in world skeleton. British sliders have won medals at every Games since the sport's return to the Olympics in 2002 and in Yarnold and Amy Williams, Team GB can boast back-to-back Olympic champions ... Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play ... * Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 11.8Kb)
Edit The Examiner
10 Jan 2014
On the 50th anniversary of her gold medal at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics, Sjoukje Dijkstra was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the ladies short program of the U.S ... Madge Syers (1908), Magda Julin (1920) and Herma Szabo (1924) are also absent from the Hall of Fame lists. ....(size: 1.6Kb)







×