until the end of the tournament in france. 0nto beijing no medals for the british athletes today at the winter paralympics, and a set back for gb s wheelchair curlers. they had increased their chances of reaching the semi finals, after beating estonia 10 5 in the morning session. but they are now seventh in the standings after losing to table toppers sweden, with only the top four advancing. despite athletes struggling with news from home, ukraine are second in the medal table with six gold medals. they took two clean sweeps of the podium in the biathlon. iryna bui took gold in the women s middle distance standing biathlon, 0leksandra kononova took silver, with liudmyla liashenko in bronze. there was also a full ukrainian podium in the men s middle distance vision impaired. so far, all of great britain s medals at the games have come from the visually impaired alpine ski team. following her bronze medal in the super combined yesterday,
repeats its call for peace. wales world cup play off semifinal against austria will go ahead this month, despite the postponement of scotland v ukraine. the winners of the two ties were due to face each other for a place at qatar 2022. fifa has accepted ukraine s request to push back their tie in glasgow. 15 players in ukraine s last squad came from teams competing in the country s domestic league, which has been paused for at least a month. to rugby union and ireland captain johnny sexton has confirmed he will retire after the 2023 world cup. the 36 year old leinster fly half made the announcement today after signing a contract extension until the end of the tournament in france. 0nto beijing no medals for the british athletes today at the winter paralympics, and a set back for gb s wheelchair curlers. they had increased their chances of reaching the semi finals, after beating estonia 10 5 in the morning session. but they are now seventh in the standings after losing to table top