{"id":25231,"date":"2018-02-13T16:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=25231"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:17:55","slug":"cardiffs-mica-goes-bobsleigh-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/13\/cardiffs-mica-goes-bobsleigh-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff&#039;s own Mica goes for Olympic bobsleigh medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MICA Moore, who once competed for Cardiff Met,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0represents Team GB at the Winter Olympics next week despite taking up the bobsleigh only two years ago.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She began her career as a sprinter, breaking the Welsh 4x100m relay national record in 2014. Moore competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in this discipline, finishing seventh in the final.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Moore she failed to reach the qualifying standard for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, prompting her to take up bobsleigh in November 2016.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alongside teammate, Mica McNeill, Moore won the 2017 IBSF Junior Bobsleigh World Championships. Despite this success, their funding was cut by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association following a decision to focus on the male teams.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remarkably, the pair managed to raise \u00a330,000 through crowdfunding, allowing them to compete in the 2017\/18 Bobsleigh World Cup. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a sled branded &#8220;Powered by the People&#8221;\u2019, Moore and McNeill finished fifth, the best result for a British women\u2019s team at the competition for eight years. 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