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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Mark Staniforth

Calamitous start sees Britain end its 20-year streak of women’s skeleton medals

PA Wire

Great Britain’s 20-year-old streak of Olympic medals in the women’s skeleton is over after a calamitous start by Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley in Yanqing on Friday.

Deas and Crowley sit 21st and 22nd respectively after the first two runs of the event which concludes on Saturday, with the pair only besting athletes from South Korea, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

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