Winter Olympics briefing: Great Britain are on a golden roll as records tumble

If the Sunday already felt golden under the alpine sun for Team GB, it only glittered brighter after dark

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uper Sunday? More like Golden Sunday. From the sunlit snowboard slopes to the floodlit ice track, Great Britain delivered a one-two punch that will live long in Winter Olympic folklore. In the space of a few hours, two British duos – Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale, then Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston – turned near-misses and nerves into history-making golds.

Bankes and Nightingale stunned the field to win the mixed team snowboard cross, capturing the first gold medal on snow in the nation’s 102-year history at the Winter Games. In the wild, elbows-out chaos of the event, the British duo seized a title few predicted was coming.

Seeded 13th out of 16 teams entering the final rounds, Bankes and Nightingale had shown little indication in their individual events that a golden turnaround was brewing. But Sunday was different.