Curler Eve Muirhead and alpine skier Dave Ryding selected as joint-flag bearers for Team GB at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest arena
- The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics gets underway on Friday
- Team GB has sent over 50 athletes to compete in the Games based in China
- Eve Muirhead and Dave Ryding have been selected as flag-bearers on Friday
Eve Muirhead and Dave Ryding will share flag-bearing duties for Great Britain at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the famous ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium on Friday.
Muirhead, a bronze medallist at Sochi 2014, and Ryding, who made history last month in Kitzbuehel as the first British athlete to win an alpine skiing World Cup, are both preparing to compete in their fourth Olympics.
Ryding said he was ‘beyond proud’ to be afforded the joint honour, and is relishing the experience of taking part in his first ceremony given schedules that have ordinarily dictated his late arrival at the Games.
Eve Muirhead (above) has been named as one of Team GB’s flag-bearers at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Alpine skier Dave Ryding is the other British athlete with the joint-honour at the ceremony
The 35-year-old is aiming to make more history in Beijing, and is driven by the desire to win an Olympic medal for his assistant-coach Alain Baxter, who finished in the bronze medal position in Salt Lake City in 2002 before being controversially stripped for his use of a nasal inhaler.
‘I still remember watching him win the medal and it ignited something in me, whether it was passion or excitement,’ recalled Ryding.
‘Whatever I achieve, Alain for me…
Source : dailymail
