Team GB secured its first gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on Friday, February 13th, as Matt Weston triumphed in the men's singles skeleton competition. The 28-year-old, a world and European champion, dominated the event, posting track records and ultimately winning by a significant margin.
Weston's victory came after leading at the halfway stage of the event on Thursday, according to Sky News. He continued his impressive performance on Friday, recording another track record in his third run and increasing his margin of victory to 0.88 seconds. Weston, who hails from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, previously competed in taekwondo before switching to skeleton.
In other news, the designer of the Haitian team's uniform for the 2026 Winter Olympics was forced to redesign the ski suits at the last minute, according to The Guardian. The original design featured an image of the formerly enslaved revolutionary Toussaint Louverture riding a horse, but the designer had to paint over the image to comply with International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines.
Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured a majority victory in the country's first election since the 2024 uprising, as reported by Sky News. The BNP, headed by Tarique Rahman, who returned to Bangladesh in December after 17 years in self-exile, won a two-thirds majority, enough to form the next government.
Also on February 13th, the co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, stated that the UK government's ban on the group had "backfired" after the High Court ruled that proscribing the group as a terror organization was unlawful, according to Al Jazeera.
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