{"id":22508,"date":"2026-02-17T05:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22508"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:36:23","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-nicoll-in-shock-at-18th-moore-so-happy-with-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22508","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Nicoll &#8216;in shock&#8217; at 18th, Moore &#8216;so happy&#8217; with 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamaica&#8217;s Mica Moore, from Newport in south Wales, finished four places ahead of Nicoll in 14th and was delighted with the outcome following her switch in 2022 from representing GB after claiming she had witnessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/winter-sports\/60612911\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8220;damaging and offensive behaviour&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore told BBC Sport: &#8220;I&#8217;m so happy. It has been a real tough journey to get here, it hasn&#8217;t been easy at all. I guess to me it is just a story of not giving up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had a really difficult time with Great Britain and that is not secret at all and I&#8217;m just so proud I didn&#8217;t give up on myself and I&#8217;m so grateful for my family and friends for digging myself out of the trenches when it was really tough and just keep going. Moments like this make it really worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore began her sporting career as an athlete &#8211; representing Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games &#8211; before switching to bobsleigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her grandfather, Venson Byfield, came to the UK in the Windrush generation and settled in Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a really proud moment,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken a lot about my grandfather and how we came over with the Windrush generation and I never got the pleasure of meeting him, but my mum has told me so many stories about him and I just had that in my heart the whole time. I just wanted to make my family proud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve supported me for so long. I&#8217;m 33 now so I&#8217;m quite old and they&#8217;ve never wavered in their support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve just had the most lovely career because of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cjwz24y9xpdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica&#8217;s Mica Moore, fr&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22509,"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\/22508"}],"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=22508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}