Sochi 2014: Jack Whelbourne falls in 1,500m short track final
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Britain's Jack Whelbourne crashed and injured himself in the 1,500m short track speed skating final at Sochi 2014 but hopes to skate on through the pain.
The 22-year-old had defied his world ranking to reach the final but twisted his ankle mid-race and did not finish.
"It's very sore but hopefully I'll be OK for the other two distances," the Nottingham skater told BBC Sport.
Canada's Charles Hamelin won the race ahead of China's Han Tianyu as Viktor Ahn won bronze for hosts Russia.
Ahn won three gold medals and a bronze at the Turin Games eight years ago while competing for South Korea as Ahn Hyun-soo, but switched nationality to Russia and changed his name ahead of competing in Sochi.
Earlier on Monday, British duo Elise Christie and Charlotte Gilmartin came safely through their 500m heats to reach Thursday's quarter-finals.
Whelbourne had created history as the first Briton to reach an Olympic 1,500m short track final.
But, having raced a perfect semi-final to reach the showdown for gold, he rolled his ankle on a black rubber block - used to mark the course - which had become dislodged. "It can be quite common in the sport," he said.
Team GB officials later said Whelbourne had been taken for a precautionary x-ray of his right ankle, which revealed no fracture.
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The country which gave the world curling (as it did most other sports) have had a bit of a mixed bag of results:
Sochi 2014: Great Britain curlers have mixed results
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Great Britain's men won but their female counterparts lost on the opening day of curling at the Sochi Games.
David Murdoch's rink scored four points in the sixth end as they beat Russia 7-4.
The women lost a tough match, 6-4, to reigning Olympic and European Champions - and medal rivals - Sweden.
Skip Eve Muirhead was off her game, with a shot accuracy of 61% whereas Sweden skip Margaretha Sigfridsson was higher at 80%.
Britain, considered strong gold medal contenders, have plenty of time to make amends with eight more matches in the round-robin stage of the competition, with the top four advancing to the semi-finals.
GB's male curlers did better than their female compatriots
Muirhead said: "It is always disappointing to lose the first match. It was always going to be a tough one anyway, playing the European champions and world runners-up.
"They are one of the favourites but the game could have gone either way. We got off to a bit of a slow start, managed to claw it back to all square but they played a fantastic shot in the seventh end that gave them that step ahead."
GB men have a second match on Monday, against Sweden at 15:00 GMT.
WINTER OLYMPICS FACT OF THE DAY
The tiny British island of Ailsa Craig, located in the Firth of Clyde and measuring just over 219 acres, provides the world with curling stones. The island's granite has been used to make curling stones - curling is a Scottish sport - since the 19th Century and still is today. Around 70% of all the world's curling stones today were once part of Ailsa Craig.
BBC Sport - Sochi 2014: Great Britain curlers have mixed results
