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,
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, we caught up with britain s most decorated winter paralympian, menna fitzpatrick, to find out what makes them so successful. we ve had some really good skiers in the past, and we ve learned from all the past, and we ve learned from all the things that they ve gone through, all their experiences, going forward and working well on how to build a good team, i think.
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