• Skeleton champion to lead out British team at opening ceremony
• Ormerod fractures heel after earlier fracturing wristThe reigning Olympic skeleton champion,Lizzy Yarnold, has said she will give her Russian rivals the cold shoulder if their bans are overturned by the court of arbitration for sport before the Winter Olympics gets under way in Pyeongchang. There was also harmful news for Team GB as the snowboarder Katie Ormerod was ruled out of the Games with a fractured just heel.
Cas is set to announce on Friday whether the appeals from 60 Russians, and who were originally denied entry to the Games because they were implicated in state-sponsored doping in Sochi,have been successful.
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Source: guardian.co.uk