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Team GB are targeting their most successful Winter Olympics – and will support any athlete that then chooses to oppose the International Olympic Committee ban on podium protests.
The team’s bosses confirmed on Thursday that they are eyeing three to seven medals at the Games, which start in Beijing on February 4. If they hit the upper end of their range it would eclipse the record of five hit at the past two Winter Olympics.
The Games will take place amid major opposition against China’s staging of the showpiece event, with a diplomatic boycott imposed by Britain and the US over the human rights abuses in the nation. Huge scrutiny has also been placed on China following the Peng Shuai scandal.
Team GB are targeting their most successful Winter Olympics at the Beijing 2022 Games
With podium protests the subject of a controversial ban by the IOC, it remains to be seen what response would be forthcoming from the Beijing organisers if one materialises, but the British Olympic Association will not block the way of any of their team opt to take a
