{"id":22040,"date":"2026-02-15T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22040"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:18:43","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-charlotte-bankes-and-huw-nightingale-win-snowboard-cross-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22040","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale win snowboard cross gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won snowboard cross mixed team gold – Team GB’s first ever Winter Olympic title on snow.<\/b><\/p>\n

After heartbreak in their individual events, the British pair made amends with an astonishing performance to add Olympic gold to the World Championship title they won in 2023.<\/p>\n

In an event that sees the men race first, Nightingale crossed the line in second place to set up Bankes perfectly – and she used her remarkable speed on the board to take the lead and pip Italy’s Michela Moioli to the line.<\/p>\n

It marked a second successive silver in this event for Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva, while France’s Loan Bozzolo and Lea Casta took bronze.<\/p>\n

Bankes, a former individual world champion and two-time overall World Cup winner, was left crestfallen on Friday when she exited the women’s event in the quarter-finals, just as she did four years ago in Beijing, despite being widely tipped for a medal.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Nightingale was left wanting much more from himself after exiting the men’s competition in the round of 16, but found another level to produce arguably his best racing alongside Bankes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

#Winter #Olympics #Charlotte #Bankes #Huw #Nightingale #win #snowboard #cross #gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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