Historic snowboard glory for Team GB

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale have made Olympic history for Team GB at the Milan-Cortina Games.

The pair have come first in the snowboard cross mixed team event - Team GB's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal on snow.

After missing out in their individual events, the British pair smashed it in the snowboard cross mixed team race, adding Olympic gold to the World Championship title they won in 2023.

GB's only previous Olympic medals on snow were bronzes - for snowboarder Jenny Jones in 2014, and freestyle skier Izzy Atkin and snowboarder Billy Morgan four years later.

The snowboard cross mixed team final saw four teams go against each other, each made up of a male and female snowboarder.

The men raced first, and Huw Nightingale crossed the line in second place.

Then in the women's race, Charlotte Bankes used her super-speed on the board to come from behind, zoom into the lead and beat Italy to the line.

Charlotte, from Hemel Hempstead, is a former individual world champion and two-time overall World Cup winner, and was disappointed on Friday when she was knocked out of her individual event, despite hoping for a medal.

Likewise Huw - who's from Bolton - was left wanting much more after exiting the men's competition, but found another level to produce some of his best racing alongside Charlotte.