{"id":8123,"date":"2026-02-15T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:36:23","slug":"great-britain-seize-historic-win-in-mixed-team-snowboard-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8123\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain seize historic win in Mixed Team Snowboard Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=163465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Bankes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=226964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huw Nightingale<\/a> combined to make history as Great Britain won its first ever Olympic title in a snow sport in the Mixed Team Snowboard Cross at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno.<\/p>\n<p>Nightingale was second after his run, 0.14 behind leaders France 2, and although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=258673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lea Casta<\/a> stormed out of the blocks, Bankes came through on the inside to seize a lead she was never going to relinquish.<\/p>\n<p>The Italy 1 pairing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=147374\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Sommariva<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=163949\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michela Moioli<\/a> won silver after the women\u2019s individual bronze medallist made up a 0.66 deficit to overhaul France 2.<\/p>\n<p>Casta and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=181709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loan Bozzolo<\/a> (FRA) finished third and Australia 1 fourth with individual women\u2019s champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=229969\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josie Baff<\/a> given a mountainous task after <a href=\"http:\/\/fis-ski.com\/DB\/general\/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=SB&amp;competitorid=181927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Lambert<\/a> fell.<\/p>\n<p>Bankes underlined her resilience as she responded to the anguish of going out of the individual event at the quarterfinal stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale combined to make history as Great Britain won its first ever Olympic title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2717,6346,1862,6347,17,1897],"class_list":{"0":"post-8123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-federation","9":"tag-fis","10":"tag-ski","11":"tag-snowboard","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-winter-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}