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Great Britain´s biggest Winter Olympics team selected…

By Press Association

Published: 13:38 GMT, 25 January 2018 | Updated: 13:38 GMT, 25 January 2018

Great Britain will send its biggest Winter Olympics team to Pyeongchang with 59 athletes selected to compete in South Korea.

Team GB will be hoping to surpass the best-ever return of four medals – achieved in Chamonix in 1924 and four years ago in Sochi – for the Games which run from February 9-25.

Short track speedskating world champion Elise Christie heads a number of strong British medal contenders in Pyeongchang and UK Sport has set a target of at least five medals.

Lizzy Yarnold struck women´s skeleton gold in Sochi (Andrew Milligan/PA Images)

Lizzy Yarnold struck women´s skeleton gold in Sochi (Andrew Milligan/PA Images)

Lizzy Yarnold led the way in Sochi, winning gold in the women’s skeleton. Jenny Jones won snowboard bronze and the men’s and women’s curling teams claimed silver and bronze respectively.

The Sochi medal tally could yet rise if the men’s bobsleigh team is awarded a retrospective bronze as a result of ongoing hearings into Russian doping.

Team GB had a team of 56 in Sochi and 50 in Vancouver four years earlier.

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