ByKatie FalkinghamBBC Sport Senior Journalist<\/p>\n
Great Britain's Menna Fitzpatrick will compete in the Winter Paralympics, almost three months after suffering a significant knee injury.<\/p>\n
Para-alpine skier Fitzpatrick, Britain's most decorated Winter Paralympian with six medals, sustained the injury in training in December but opted against surgery in a bid to compete at the Milan-Cortina Games, which start on 6 March.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old and her guide, Katie Guest, are among the second wave of athletes named in the GB team., external<\/a><\/p>\n Fred Warburton and guide James Hannan, Sam Cozens and guide Adam Hall, Hester Poole and guide Ali Hall, and Dominic Allen also make the Para-alpine team.<\/p>\n Snowboarder Davy Zyw has been included and is thought to be the first snowsport athlete with motor neurone disease (MND) to compete at the Games.<\/p>\n "I'm stoked beyond measure. Every time I strap into my snowboard I count my stars," he said.<\/p>\n "The journey to get to the Games has been immense, but nothing is impossible."<\/p>\n Para-snowboarders Matt Hamilton and Nina Sparks have been added to the team, and Sparks will become the first female snowboarder to represent Britain at a Paralympics.<\/p>\n The first part of the team<\/a> was announced in December.<\/p>\n The Games, which run until 15 March, will mark the 50th anniversary of the first Winter Paralympics.<\/p>\n Wheelchair curling mixed doubles is the only new medal event in this year's programme.<\/p>\n Britain won six medals at the 2022 Games in Beijing. That was one short of the haul from Pyeongchang 2018 and came from the biggest GB team at a Winter Paralympics since 1994 in Lillehammer.<\/p>\n Fit-again Fitzpatrick in GB Winter Paralympics teamImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Menna Fitzpatrick won slalom gold at the 2018 Winter ParalympicsByKatie FalkinghamBBC Sport Senior Journalis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related topics<\/h2>\n
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