{"id":23468,"date":"2018-01-23T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=23468"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:43:28","slug":"cardiffs-mica-moore-chosen-olympic-bobsleigh-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/23\/cardiffs-mica-moore-chosen-olympic-bobsleigh-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff\u2019s Mica Moore to bobsleigh in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CARDIFF&#8217;S MICA Moore has been selected to represent Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea next month.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore will team up with regular partner Mica McNeill, with Moore acting as brake woman and McNeill the pilot.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore said: \u201cI\u2019m so incredibly proud to be able to represent Great Britain at the highest level. It\u2019s something that as a young athlete I dreamt of and I honestly can\u2019t believe it\u2019s coming true.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI can\u2019t wait to be part of Team GB in PyeongChang.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has not been an easy road for former sprinter Moore. The British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) withdrew its funding for a women\u2019s bobsleigh team last September, forcing the team to rely on crowdfunding to raise \u00a330,000.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time Moore told the BBC she was \u201cdevastated it has come to this,\u201d but that she was more determined to make it to the Olympics.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore and her partner Mica McNeill walked away unscathed from a spectacular crash in the World Cup in Altenberg earlier this month after their bobsleigh overturned at more than 70mph.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both were initially groggy after the incident but were later given the all-clear by medical staff at the track.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Winter Olympics start on 9 February 2018.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARDIFF&#8217;S MICA Moore has been selected to represent Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea next month. 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