Dave Ryding shocked the Alpine skiing world when he claimed Britain's first World Cup skiing podium in 36 years when he took slalom silver in Kitzbuhel, last January.

Ryding has been steadily improving in recent years and almost made another trip to the podium in Stockholm in the parallel slalom, but finished an agonising fourth, just 0.06s off a bronze medal. This season he already has four World Cup top-tens to his name, including a fourth at the Oslo city event.

There's not much left for Elise Christie, a 27-year-old Scot, to achieve in the world of short track speed skating, but leaving Sochi 2017 empty-handed means she has a score to settle with the Olympic Winter Games in 2018.

Christie became the first British skater to win two medals at a World Championships, following that in 2016 by setting a world record in the 500 meters, retaining her European overall title and taking 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m crowns. A year later she truly shone, picking up a hat-trick of gold medals at the World Championships.

A thigh injury has blighted her PyeongChang preparations, but she has shown she is still in medal-winning form with a bronze and a gold from this season's World Cup.

Described by Team GB as the "young pretender", Izzy Atkin is a teenager with a big future in front of her. At 18 she became the first British woman to win a World Cup ski slopestyle event when she triumphed in Silvaplana, Switzerland, last March.

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