McNeil and Sawyers in Medals

Great Britain won three medals at the Winter Youth Olympic Games after bobsleigh duo Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers took silver on the final day.

They moved up to silver from fourth place after the first run, in a race won by the Netherlands' Marije van Huigenbosch and Sanne Dekker.

The second GB duo, Kirsten Emerson and Frances Slater, finished fourth in Innsbruck, Austria.

On Saturday, Team GB won a gold and silver in short-track speed skating.

Driver McNeil told BBC Sport: "It means so much, I've been working really hard for a long time so - to finally have a medal, which is all I wanted from the start, is great.

"My first run wasn't great, I wasn't pleased with it at all as I'd done better in training. So for the second one I just had to forget everything, pretend it's a new race, a new day. We pushed our best, I had a fairly good drive and it worked out in the end."

Brakewoman Sawyers, who won athletics gold medals in long jump and 4x100m relay at the Youth Commonwealth Games in 2011, added: "This is what we came here really hoping we could get and after the first run we were fourth, thinking we haven't done it.

"We then thought we'd got third and then looked at the last sled and realised we had silver. It feels amazing."

British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Hunt predicted a bright future for the duo, who won on the track where Britain triumphed in two-man bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

He said on Twitter: "Mica McNeil & Jazmin Sawyers win bobsleigh silver. Brilliant, no doubt Innsbruck is just the start for these two!"

In the boys bobsleigh, GB's Olly Bidulph and James Lelliott came fifth, 0.27 seconds behind gold medallists Patrick Baumgartner and Alessandro Grande from Italy and 0.10 seconds off a medal.

WWII Bomb Postpones Medals

A medal ceremony at the Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck was postponed after the discovery of an unexploded World War Two explosive.

The 250kg (550lb) bomb was found during construction work and took four hours to be defused by 65 police staff.

Markus Auinger, Innsbruck police chief, said there had been a significant threat to public safety.

"We had to make police lines around the area and spent half an hour evacuating people from nearby buildings", he said.

Mark Adams, International Olympic Committee head of communications, added: "It's a shame, obviously. It's the first Winter Youth Olympic Games and it's really important to celebrate the medals but we thought it best to cancel.

"Safety, particularly of the athletes is at the core of everything we do. I must admit we weren't expecting to have a Second World War bomb."

Meanwhile, just a couple of miles away, the ice hockey skills event went ahead as scheduled.

Great Britain's Katherine Gale qualified in second position for the event, which was appearing at an Olympic level for the first time and scores six skills, such as movement with the puck, passing and shooting.

However, Team GB's wait for a medal in at the Winter Youth Games continues after Gale equalled the points score of the bronze medallist, but was penalised for winning fewer disciplines, finishing in fifth position.

"I'm a bit gutted as it was so close. It's disappointing not to win a medal but I gave it my all and I really enjoyed the competition," she said.

Earlier in the day Britain's sole snowboarder Lewis Courtier-Jones(Coventry) reached the final of the slopestyle event after posting a fine qualification run. However, in worsening weather conditions in the final, he was unable to land all his jumps and finished in 16th position with a score of 39.50.