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Snowboarding
Posted at 11:59

In 2014, Jenny Jones won Great Britain's first Winter Olympic medal on snow when she finished third in the snowboard slopestyle event in Sochi.



How would you reform football?
Posted at 11:54

The FA will be at Parliament later on to discuss whether English football's governing body needs to reform. Today, we're asking you how you would reform football? Here are some more suggestions.

John Hammond: Get rid of all the old grey men in suits and replace them with people who have played the game.

Mark: Monetary controls - ticket prices, stadium access for disabled, support women's football more, kick-off times guaranteed.

Rick: By getting past players, referees and coaches to run the game. To allow people who know and love football, to run the sports.

Keep the suggestions coming in, via #bbcsportsday or the Match of the Day Facebook page.


BBC Sport
Posted at 11:51

Championship side Queens Park Rangers have held informal discussions with their local council about the possibility of building a new stadium on the site of the Linford Christie athletics track in west London.

QPR have been looking for a site for a new ground for a number of years, having decided their 18,439-capacity Loftus Road stadium is not big enough for their needs.

The club had hoped to build at Old Oak Common, but those plans have stalled.

Now they have spoken to Hammersmith and Fulham council, who operate the Linford Christie Stadium, named after the most famous member of the Thames Valley Harriers athletics club, who currently use it.

Should discussions results in formal plans being submitted, it is envisaged a smaller stadium, adjacent to the main one, would become the new home to the Thames Valley Harriers athletics club.

Unlike West Ham’s situation at the London Stadium, there would be no athletics track around the football ground.
QPR's Loftus Road

Great Britain beat Latvia

Fed Cup: Konta 6-2 6-3 Ostapenko (GB beat Latvia 2-0)
Posted at 11:48

And it's all over!

Konta gets a comfortable win over Jelena Ostapenko to give GB victory a 2-0 over Latvia.

Heather Watson's earlier win against Diana Marcinkevica sees Great Britain win their second tie of the week.

But they can't celebrate...yet.

Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae must play yet another dead rubber in the doubles next, before GB take on Turkey tomorrow.

Victory in that tie would see GB finish top of the group and qualify for Saturday's promotion play-offs. (where they would play the winner of Pool B)

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