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Lloyd Wallace
Lloyd Wallace (born 13 February 1995) is a British freestyle skier who competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. Career Wallace was a gymnast, before switching to aerial skiing at the age of 14, after a family skiing holiday in Tignes, France. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 FIS Junior freestyle skiing championships. He was the first British skier to win a Europa Cup in men's aerial skiing at Airolo, Switzerland, in March 2015. In August 2017 whilst Wallace was training in Mettmenstetten, Switzerland, he had an accident which left him unconscious. He was then put in an induced coma. Wallace later said that the accident was caused by hitting the edge of a ramp. Wallace recovered at the Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre, and returned to training two months after the accident. Wallace competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea where he performed two types of triple twisting triple somersaults. He was the first British aerial skier to compete at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team GB
Team GB is the brand name used since 1999 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for their British Olympic team. The brand was developed after the nation's poor performance in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is now a trademark of the BOA. It is meant to unify the team as one body, irrespective of each member athlete's particular sport. Officially, the team is the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team", although athletes from Northern Ireland may opt to compete under the auspices of the Olympic Federation of Ireland instead. History The British Olympic Association's director of marketing, Marzena Bogdanowicz, felt that the official and abbreviated names of the Great Britain Olympic team were a mouthful. She first thought of the 'Team GB' concept in 1996 or 1997, and said: "I went to the games in 1996 and the logo at the time was just the lion and the rings, but we weren't strong enough as a brand to just be a lion and the rings. So coming back I wanted to find s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |