Pundit profiles

Chemmy Alcott

• Chemmy Alcott is a former British World Cup alpine ski racer
• She has ranked 8th in the world and is the first and only female British Skier to win a run in a World Cup race
• Alcott competed in four Winter Olympic Games and seven FIS World Championships and has been overall Senior British National Champion five times

Graham Bell

• Graham Bell is a five-time Olympian and claimed the Ski Champion of Britain title on eight occasions during his illustrious career
• He is an Olympic skier, TV presenter, adventurer and journalist
• He has remained at the forefront of British sport, fronting the popular and iconic BBC primetime series ‘Ski Sunday’ and this will be his fifth Olympics with the BBC

Alex Coomber

• Alex Coomber is a British skeleton racer who won the bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City
• She won the women's Skeleton World Cup title three years in a row and is the only British athlete to have won three winter world cup series
• Coomber also won a silver medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary

Robin Cousins

• Robin Cousins is a British former competitive figure skater
• He is the 1980 Olympic champion, the 1980 European champion, a three-time World medallist and four-time British national champion
• Cousins turned professional in 1980 and went on to win the World Professional Men’s Figure Skating Championships twice and was a World Professional singles medallist four times

Ed Drake

• Ed Drake is a British former alpine skier and ski cross racer
• Drake is a three-time British ski cross champion and four-time British champion in giant slalom, Super G and combined in 2008 and 2009
• He competed in four alpine disciplines at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, narrowly missed out on qualifying for the ski cross competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and announced his retirement from racing in May 2016

Logan Gray

• Logan Gray is a Scottish former curler and two-time World Junior curling bronze medallist
• Gray has participated at numerous Scottish national championships and won one World Curling Tour title from the Mercure Perth Masters in 2014
• He is a six-time national champion and retired from international competition in June 2014

Rhona Howie MBE (formerly Rhona Martin MBE)

• Rhona Howie MBE is a British curler most famous for skipping the British women's team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team claimed the gold medal
• The two-time Olympian and Team GB Winter Olympics ambassador has also skipped for Scotland at both the World and European Championships
• In 2010 Martin was appointed as the new women’s head coach of the British and Scottish Curling performance, leading a coaching team to a bronze medal for Team GB at Sochi 2014

John Jackson

• John Jackson is a British former bobsledder who competed at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, guiding his crew to fifth place in the four-man event in 2014
• In 2011 John won gold in the two-man event in the Europa Cup, St Moritz, and was the first British man ever to do this
• In December 2013 Jackson led his team to a silver medal in the four-man event at the World Cup in Lake Placid, NY – this was the first international podium for the GB men in 15 years

Jenny Jones

• Jenny Jones is a professional snowboarder and former Olympic medallist
• Jones stole headlines at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 as she made sporting history, becoming the first Brit to win an Olympic medal in a snow event, taking home bronze in slopestyle
• She is a three-time X Games slopestyle gold medallist, and won slopestyle silver in the New Zealand World Cup in 2013

Ben Kilner

• Ben Kilner competed for Great Britain at the Vancouver and Sochi Olympics in Halfpipe
• He is a three-time British Champion
• He now runs his own gym in Scotland

Sarah Lindsay

• Sarah Lindsay is a British short track speed skater who represented Team GB at the Winter Olympics at Vancouver 2010, Turin 2006 and Salt Lake City 2002
• She is a 10-time British Champion, a European gold medallist and World Cup silver medallist
• Sarah now owns and runs London-based Roar Fitness

Jackie Lockhart

• Jackie Lockhart is a Scottish curler who has competed in four Winter Olympic Games and was part of the BBC's commentary team for the curling tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
• Lockhart was a member of the first Scottish team to win the European Mixed Curling Championship in Italy and is still Scotland’s most ever capped player with 29 selections
• Jackie is a two-time World Curling Champion firstly skipping in 2002 at the World Women’s Championships and then more recently skipping in the World Senior Women’s in 2016

Nicola Minichiello

• Nicola Minichiello is a retired British bobsledder who competed between 2001 and 2011
• She won two medals in the two-woman event at the IBSF World Championships, winning a silver in 2005 and making history with a gold in 2009
• Competing in three Winter Olympics, Minichiello earned her best finish of ninth in the two-woman event at Turin in 2006. This was also the best ever Olympic result by a GB women’s bobsleigh team

David Murdoch

• David Murdoch is a senior coach at British Curling and the most successful men’s curler for Team GB since 1924
• A seven-time national champion, he has been Team GB skip at three Winter Olympics; Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal
• David claimed the European Champion title in 2003, a title he also held in 2007 and 2008 - interspersed with World Championship gold medals in 2006 and 2009

Wilf O’Reilly MBE

• Wilf O'Reilly MBE is a former British short track speed skater
• He is a three-time World Champion at 500m and two-time World Champion at 1000m
• O’Reilly won two gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, when short track was a demonstration sport, and was the 1991 Overall World Champion in Sydney and coach of the Netherlands short track team

Jayne Torvill OBE and Christopher Dean OBE

• Jayne Torvill OBE and Christopher Dean OBE are British ice dancers and former British, European, Olympic and World champions
• At the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics the pair won gold and became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme after skating to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro
• The pair turned professional following the 1984 World Championships, regaining amateur status briefly 10 years later in 1994 to compete in the Olympics once again, retiring from competitive skating for good in 1998

Amy Williams MBE

• Amy is a British former skeleton racer who won Team GB’s only gold medal of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in skeleton bobsleigh at her debut Winter Olympic Games
• She became Britain’s first solo Winter Olympics champion in 30 years and the first female individual gold medallist for 58 years
• Her success saw her nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010 as well as being named Glamour magazine Sportswoman of the Year

Related Programme Information

• Clare Balding’s Road To The Winter Games (w/t)

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