Pyeongchang 2018 can be our best ever Winter Olympics, say Team GB

• Britain identifies ‘10 or 12 realistic medal chances’ at Games
• ‘It is the strongest team we have ever had for a Winter Olympics’

Team GB officials say they are “bullish” that next year’s Winter Olympics will be the most successful in their history – and have identified 10 to 12 realistic medal prospects.

With only 101 days to go before the Games get under way, the British Olympic Association has confirmed it expects to name a 60-strong squad for Pyeongchang and believes it will surpass the four medals the team won in Sochi in 2014. Bill Sweeney, the chief executive of the BOA, said: “We are very bullish. We look at the lineup and it is the strongest team we have ever had for a Winter Olympics.”

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2h2IoGx