On a day with 36 medals up for grabs, Team GB’s Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe won silver in the women’s visually impaired giant slalom, finishing behind Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova, who took their fourth gold of the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
After the race Fitzpatrick said: “It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward. It just doesn’t sink in. When we get to celebrate we’ll have a chance to realise what we’ve done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far.”
The silver was their third medal of the Games, adding to their super combined silver and super-G bronze.
Team GB’s Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Gary Smith, narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fifth. A disappointed Gallagher, a gold medal winner at Sochi 2014, said: “I think there is more in us but I definitely set out with the intentions to work really hard, which I did, and overall it went quite well. It’s hard to want something and for it then not to work out for you but I suppose having that resilience is really what these Games are about.”
Source :- theguardian
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