Team GB finished well out of the medals back in 12th place in the two-man bobsleigh at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, live on TNT Sports and discovery+.Taylor Lawrence and Brad Hall were in eighth place after the first two heats, but after Leon Greenwood was called up to partner Hall for the final two heats, with Lawrence missing out as a precautionary measure, they dropped to 12th place in the final standings.
Germany repeated their clean sweep from Beijing and occupied the top three spots in the standings from the first heat with the team of Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer a dominant force, winning by 1.34 seconds. Three times they finished in under 55 seconds, the only team to do so, and set a track record of 54.68 in the first heat.
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Olympics live: Lochner and Fleischhauer win in style
They were the only team to go under 55 seconds in any of the runs and did so again with 54.91, ending on 3:39.70 fully 1.34 seconds in front of the field.
Olympics live: Silver sealed…
Friedrich and Schuller will see if the top boys have a disaster, but they have fulfilled their remit, as a 55.33 run comfortably has them 0.48 seconds above their compatriots.
Olympics live: Barring a miracle…
We will have a German top three. Ammour and Schaller did not beat the American time, but only by 0.01 seconds, so ultimately finish 0.44 ahead with 3:41.52.
Olympics live: Americans have a glimmer of hope
They better the Romanians with a 55.34 run. They begin the run 0.45 seconds behind the third German duo, so will need a bad run, but have at least given themselves a chance.
Olympics live: Romanian duo give themselves a chance
They record a Heat 4 best (so far) of 55.53, giving the four teams above them a target of 3:42.37 to beat.
Olympics live: Now we get to the business end
In reality, the gold looks done and dusted for Lochner and Fleischhauer but there is a chance of the bronze medal denying Germany a clean sweep.
Olympics live: Italian pair edge ahead of Latvians
They came into Heat 4 in joint-seventh, but Baumgartner and Mircea managed 55.60, edging a sluggish 55.61 from kalenda and Miknis.
Olympics live: Team GB drop down the order
They are behind the French and Netherlands, so probably looking at a 12th-place finish after a 56.17 run – the tenth best in Heat 4 so far.
Olympics live: Dead heat between French and Netherlands
After four heats nothing could split these teams so they are likely to finish in joint 10th with 3:43.32.
Olympics live: Team GB coming up shortly
They go after the Austrian team currently on the track.
Olympics live: Swiss teams switch places
Follador and Rolli’s blistering 55.68, the best of the Heat so far, has seen them rise above compatriots, Rohner and Annen by a hundredth of a second.
Olympics live: Teams now going for broke
So you may see more changes in order. The Chinese team of Chunjian Li and Jielong Ye, for instance, have made the quickest time so far in this heat, 55.94, and jumped from 19th to 17th.
Olympics live: We go in reverse order now
So Liechtenstein are the first team up.
Olympics live: Ready to go for Heat 4
Germany swept the medals last time out. It looks like they will again.
Olympics live: Heat 4 to get underway at 19:55 GMT
Olympics live: The Rankings after Heat 3
1 Lochner, Fleischhauer (GER): 2:44.79
2 Friedrich, Schuller (GER): 2:45.71, +0.92
3 Ammour, Schaller (GER): 2:46.17, +1.38
4 del Duca, Williamson (USA): 2:46.62, +1.83
5 Tentea, Iordache (ROU): 2:46.84, +2.05
6 Vogt, Ndiaye (SUI): 2:46.96, +2.17
7 Baumgartner, Mircea (ITA): 2:47.07, +2.28
7 Kalenda, Miknis (LAT): 2:47.07, +2.28
9 Hall, Greenwood (GBR): 2:47.26, +2.47
10 Treichl, Bertschler (AUT): 2:47.27, +2.48
11 Heinrich, Hauterville (FRA): 2:47.39, +2.60
12 Wesselink, Franjic (NED): 2:47.45, +2.66
13 Jinsu, Hyeonggeun (KOR): 2:47.59, +2.80
14 Rohner, Annen (SUI): 2:47.98, +3.19
15 Follador, Rolli (SUI): 2:48.13, +3.34
16 Sun, An (CHN): 2:48.14, +3.35
17 Austin, Murray-Lawrence (CAN): 2:48.33, +3.54
18 Youngjin, Byungfo (KOR): 2:48.53, +3.74
19 Li, Yes (CHN): 2:48.65, +3.86
20 Kranz, Tschofen (LIE): 2:48.69, +3.90
Olympics live: The top 20 go through
Liechtenstein hold onto 20th spot. The Israel team in last place came as close as any team have to a crash, smashing into woodwork a few times and veering up onto one sled but thankfully they came though ok.
Olympics live: Battle for top 20 place now
Only the top 20 go in Heat 4 and the Liechtenstein team are currently in 20th place.
Olympics live: British team drop to ninth
With the slower teams going now, Team GB are pretty much guaranteed to go into Heat 4 in ninth spot.
Olympics live: Italy usurp British team
Patrick Baumgartner and Robert Mircea race quicker than the British team and the Latvian outfit, moving them level in seventh spot with the latter. Britain are down to ninth.
Olympics live: Team GB get through unscathed
With Taylor Lawrence replaced by Leon Greenwood (rested, not sacked), the GB sleigh gets through unscathed, without making any ground on the teams above.
Olympics live: Team GB underway…
Olympics live: Swiss move above Latvians
Beginning in seventh place, the Swiss pair move up sixth, with the Latvians dropping a place.
Olympics live: It is as you were…
The three German teams have gone and stayed in the positions they held after Heat 2.
Lochner and Fleischhauer’s 54.89 was the quickest of the three, extending their lead over their compatriots to almost a second.
Olympics live: Heat 3 gets underway
It is the German teams who will go first.
Olympics live: Thanks for joining us for the two-man bobsleigh
We will be following all the action about to get underway, keeping a special eye on how Leon Greenwood and Brad Hall get on.
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