{"id":11940,"date":"2026-01-13T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:50:13","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-uk-sport-sets-medal-ambitions-for-team-gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11940","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: UK Sport sets medal ambitions for Team GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The medal range for the Winter Paralympics, which are set to run between 6-15 March, is lower than Beijing 2022 because of &#8220;challenges throughout the cycle with injury and international competition opportunities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, Menna Fitzpatrick, Britain&#8217;s most decorated Winter Paralympian with six medals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c3e0kn140ylo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">suffered a serious knee injury in training,<\/a> but is undergoing treatment in a bid to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GB team is still expected to be &#8220;competitive&#8221; for medals &#8220;across a wide range of disciplines&#8221;, with Phil Smith, ParalympicsGB chef de mission, adding he was &#8220;confident we have a plan in place to give each and every athlete the best possible chance to deliver incredible performances&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Funded through the National Lottery and government, UK Sport has invested more than \u00a332.5m across the current four-year cycle for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, with the &#8220;ambition for the UK to become an ever-greater force&#8221; in winter sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c7v0r6v81nlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medal range for the Winter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}