GB skier Reece Bell out to continue family legacy at next year’s Winter Olympics Reece Bell is not exactly short of inspiration as she seeks to extend the legacy of Britain’s pre-eminent skiing family by sealing her place at next year’s Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.
Bell has also been taking lessons from the sport’s ultimate underdog, GB team-mate Dave Ryding, who capped his remarkable journey from the Pendle dry slope to the top of the World Cup podium when he scored his historic victory in Kitzbuhel in 2022.
“Skiing has always been such a big part of my dad’s life and it was my goal to go to the Olympics even before I really understood what the sport of skiing was about,” Bell told the PA news agency.
Uncle Graham also represented Great Britain at five Games and Bell grew up enchanted by their stories, choosing at a young age to follow in their ski trails in the hope of one day reaching the Olympics herself.
A recent graduate of the University of Denver, where she majored in ecology, Bell has already fought through a series of injury setbacks, including two anterior ligament injuries that wiped out the majority of two of her first few years on the circuit.
