{"id":2260,"date":"2018-02-22T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:58:09","slug":"mp-honours-lizzy-yarnold-in-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Honouring Lizzy Yarnold in House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lizzie-yarnold-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Lizzie Yarnold at Pyeongchang 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lizzie-yarnold-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lizzie-yarnold.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzie Yarnold at Pyeongchang 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael has tabled a motion to the House of Commons in honour of Lizzy Yarnold\u2019s \u201cmagnificent success\u201d at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>Yarnold became the first Briton \u2013 and the first skeleton athlete \u2013 to win successive Winter Games golds when she claimed victory last Saturday on an historic day for Team GB.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s tribute follows news that Yarnold, originally from West Kingsdown near Sevenoaks, is now the most decorated British Winter Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>The Sevenoaks MP also called on the Government to recognise Yarnold\u2019s achievement with a lasting commitment to youth sport.\u00a0 Members of Parliament from different parties continue to add their names to the motion in support.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: \u201cMany congratulations to our double Olympian.\u00a0 Let\u2019s use this momentum to set up a talent programme, helping our young people access any specialist sports equipment needed to succeed in events like the skeleton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has tabled a motion to the House of Commons in honour of Lizzy Yarnold\u2019s \u201cmagnificent success\u201d at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Yarnold became the first Briton \u2013 and the first skeleton athlete \u2013 to win successive Winter Games golds when she claimed victory last Saturday on an historic day for Team GB. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Honouring Lizzy Yarnold in House of Commons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[788,787,783,784,786,11,449,785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}