Thursday Update
Great day of slalom training with Glen, and a very punishing slalom gates session in the afternoon ! Great week with Glen and Ben of Gravity, Grace, Charlie, Ed, Ilana and Kayne
Update Wednesday:
Having a great week ! Lots of Giant Slalom free skiing and gates. Lots of fitness training and swimming…and FUN !
This place is great ! Just, like the rest of Europe (and Sochi) it needs more snow and to be lots colder !
Received the timetable for the Gravity Schladming Training Camp – looks full on ! Can’t Wait !
Beats sitting at home on the playstation !
Well Done Jenny !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26056289
Snowboarder Jenny Jones won Great Britain’s first ever Olympic medal on the snow with a dramatic slopestyle bronze in Sochi.
Jones, 33, held the lead after scoring 87.25 points in her second run and had an agonising wait while 10 athletes tried to better her score.
American Jamie Anderson eventually took gold with 95.25, ahead of Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi on 92.50.
“I did the best run I could have done,” a thrilled Jones told BBC Sport.
Jones scored 73.00 to place fifth after the first round, just 4.25 points off the podium places, and after an impressive second run she secured the bronze when the final competitor, Austrian medal prospect Anna Gasser, fell.
“It feels amazing,” added Jones. “I cannot believe it, I just can’t believe it. I knew I was going to drop [from first place] but I didn’t know how far. I am just so happy.
“It was so difficult waiting. I thought I did my best run and landed it as best as I could.”
Jones, from Bristol, becomes the first Briton to win a medal at a Winter Games on snow rather than ice, where 22 medals had been won before Sochi in events such as figure skating, curling, skeleton, bobsleigh and, in the more distant past, ice hockey.
Following my village football team (Great Horwood Ravens FC Under 10’s) finishing runners-up of Division 2 of the MKDDLeague, we had our presentations.
Well done team, Division 1 will be a hard division, but lets give it a good try !
January and February Football fixtures have been thin on the ground these two months, mainly due to the rain and waterlogged pitches.
At school I have played three fixtures in the Colts A team, playing up a year.
With a win against Wellingborough (Away 1:2), http://www.groveindependentschool.co.uk/index.php/news/40-sports-news/331-the-grove-colts-a-vs-wellingborough
a defeat 2:5 home against Quinton House, where I received man of the match “Initially we played some good football. Zach Metheringham at the back look pretty dominate and snuffed out any challenges.”
and a 4:1 defeat away at Wellingborough.
Zac Metheringham 