Britain wins first ever Olympic medal on snow as Jenny Jones bags bronze,karen millen dresses
Her bronze in the women's snowboard slopestyle,toms shoes, coming on the second day of the competition,juicy couture, was Britain's earliest medal in a winter Games and the country's first on snow.
The 33 year old from Bristol was the oldest entrant in the final, but showed her experience with her best run of the week on her last attempt. Her score of 87.25 briefly put her top of the standings and though she was overtaken by Finland's Enni Rukajarvi (92.50), who took silver, and gold medallist Jamie Anderson (95.25),true religion factory outlet, her third place finish was seen as a wonderful achievement.
"I can't believe it," she told the BBC. "I was just waiting because I knew I was going to drop down and down (the leaderboard) but I didn't know how far. I'm just so happy right now."
She also said: "I feel so proud to get on the podium. A few said 'is she past it?' but I did what I could and, thankfully,coach factory, it got me on there."
Her performance delighted other British sports stars. It's wonderful to see all the hard work and dedication of Jenny, her coaches and support staff, realised when it mattered the most.
"Jenny winning a historic first British Olympic medal on snow, in the new slopestyle snowboarding discipline, will create a huge sense of excitement and momentum within the team.
"UK Sport has invested over 14 million of National Lottery and Government funding into athletes representing Great Britain at the Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,north face, and set a target of winning at least three Olympic medals,prada handbags, so Jenny has got the team off to a sensational start."
George Ferguson, the elected mayor of Bristol,louboutin, tweeted that the city could hold a celebration to mark Jones's medal win.
It is one of the reasons why expectations for British success in Sochi have sky rocketed with up to seven medals being projected by UK Sport almost double the previous best.
Skier Alain Baxter won a slalom bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 but was stripped of it after failing a drugs test.
The competitor from Aviemore in the Highlands blamed the positive test for the banned substance methamphetamine on a nasal inhaler which contained the substance in the United States but not in Britain.
An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared his name but did not secure the return of his medal.
His name was included on a 36,000 sculpture honouring 14 Aviemore based Olympic athletes which was unveiled there in 2007.
Lord Coe,true religion jeans outlet, the London 2012 committee chairman and Olympic gold medal winner,louboutin outlet, said: "Alain was exonerated so he is an Olympian. He has achieved what most people in their lives dream of doing and he absolutely should be on that roll call of honour."

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