Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Build and Technologize platform funded by Winterberg Investment X and managed by Winterberg Advisory GmbH has acquired Metron Measurement SA based in Quartino 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TIC Holding Schweiz has successfully completed the acquisition of Metron Measurement SA an SCS-accredited laboratory specialized in calibrating measurement equipment in the field of Length Metron further offers active administration and handling of all the equipment of their customers and can even perform its services onsite and Certification) services have been a focus for private equity groups for decades driven by the sector's non-cyclical nature and high levels of recurring revenues Winterberg has explored this sector in Switzerland for more than three years before making its first acquisition and is currently pursuing further live transactions Board Member at TIC Holding Schweiz and Partner in Winterberg states: "After being in the M&A market in TIC in Switzerland for a long time we have finally found the nucleus of our new platform and impressive growth and a highly motivated team to deliver its services at the highest standards to the utmost satisfaction of its customers We are also very happy that Alessandro Capone stays with us as CEO of Metron with a significant shareholding in TIC Holding Schweiz Together with my partner Fabian Kroeher and the Winterberg team we are all up for an exciting journey to build a Swiss market leader in the next 5 to 7 years." we were convinced that Winterberg will be the right partner to take Metron to the next level We have been growing our services and team every year and really look forward to now be able to strategically invest and grow by acquisition in addition We are also extremely grateful to our first investor Brütsch Rüegger Tools and especially to its CEO Martin Wirth for their support and trust in us during the last 10 years of activity We want to ensure that our collaboration in the market remains at its current level and that we continue to best meet our customers' needs." affirms: "We are pleased to transfer our stake in Metron to an investor poised to further develop the company strategically and to expand the group into new sectors beyond our current scope We are confident they will successfully drive Metron's continued growth and build on its strong momentum Metron is and remains our reliable exclusive partner for testing and calibration services – a long-standing partnership that will continue We will keep providing our customers with calibration services and process-integrated calibration solutions based on Metron's comprehensive portfolio of expertise and solutions." 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Condolences, and messages for her family, may be expressed by visiting stronghancock.com To stay informed on local happenings, sign up for our newsletter! and goings-on in Lincoln County with our twice-weekly email newsletter Team USA’s Emily Sweeney celebrates after completing a run in Saturday’s FIL World Cup in Winterberg Germany — For the second time this season Emily Sweeney of Lake Placid stood on the World Cup podium after taking bronze on very fast ice Track records fell in all three events held on Saturday The women’s doubles team of Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby placed seventh after breaking the start record they set last season Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa placed ninth The United States placed fourth in the team relay event closing out a weekend of racing in Winterberg Team USA stood on the verge of a medal-winning finish but a mistake in the most difficult section of the course cost them the podium Two-time Olympian Sweeney sat in fifth place after the first heat of competition With the strength of her second heat and the misfortune of a teammate Sweeney moved up two spots to finish third in 1 minute “This week was really tough in training,” said Sweeney who won bronze here at the 2019 World Championships “The track crew has done an incredible job with the track but it’s a different track than normal I really struggled to find a clean line but I’m happy with a third for sure.” Sweeney will skip the next race in Oberhof next week to prepare for the World Championships in Whistler 2022 Olympian Ashley Farquharson sat in third place poised to take her first career World Cup medal in women’s singles But a mistake at the start dropped her back to 15th place in 1:51.042 Three-time Olympian Summer Britcher of Glen Rock Utah was 23rd with a one run time of 55.743 Only the top 20 advance to the second heat The race was won by Julia Taubitz of Germany in 1:49.582 with Madeleine Egle of Austria second in 1:49.780 athlete in 20th place with a time of 1:43.857 after a challenging race three-time Olympian Tucker West of Lake Placid also struggled to find pace Only the top 20 athletes advance to take a second run a member of the Junior National Team competing in the World Cup In yet another show of strength for the Austrian program Jonas Mueller won the race and set a track record with a time of 1:41.742 Max Langenhan of Germany was second in 1:41.797 and Nico Gleirscher of Austria was third with a two-run combined time of 1:41.843 Two-time World Championship medalists Forgan had the fastest start time of both heats today but slowly lost time throughout their two runs They also had skids in each heat entering curve 14 The duo missed the podium for only the second time in the six races held this season This was their second consecutive eighth-place result Selina Egle and Lara Kipp of Austria won for the fifth time in a row Germany’s Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal were second in 1:26.481 Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer of Italy The duo crossed the finish line in 1:25.582 Their teammates and 2022 Olympians Zack DiGregorio of Medway Massachusetts and Sean Hollander of Lake Placid were 17th with a one run time of 43.840 Only the top 16 sleds advance to the second heat Germany’s Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt became the most successful sled in men’s doubles history Austrians Juri Gatt and Riccardo Schoepf finished second in 1:25.286 with their teammates Yannick Mueller and Armin Frauscher third in 1:25.354 Sweeney kicked things off for Team USA by posting the fastest time in the discipline She hit the touch pad at the bottom of the track and opened the gate for Marcus Mueller and Haugsjaa who had the team in the bronze medal position until they flipped the sled off the final curve the duo turned the sled back on its runners in time to strike the pad and open the gate Gustafson and the women’s doubles team of Forgan and Kirkby the Austrian squad won in 3:11.428 over the Germans who posted a silver medal winning time of 3:11.519 Sweeney is sixth in the women’s World Cup standings with 293 points Farquharson is ninth with 249 points and Britcher holds 11th with 240 Erickson is 20th with 115 points in her first year on the World Cup tour Taubitz is second with 430 and Austrian Lisa Schulte is third with 415 West 15th with 162 and Aidan Mueller 27th with 75 points Langenhan and Gleirscher are tied for the lead with 456 points each Forgan and Kirkby remain in third place with 426 points in women’s competition Degenhardt and Rosenthal are second with 475 points Mueller and Haugsjaa are ninth with 239 points DiGregorio and Hollander are 11th with 211 points Wendl and Arlt hold the lead with 475 points in front of Latvians Martins Bots and Roberts Plume with 466 points Toni Eggert and Florian Mueller of Germany are third with 396 points The United States sits in sixth place in the overall World Cup relay standings with 185 points LAKE PLACID — Registration for the first-ever event on the Adirondack Rail Trail — Sunday Copyright © 2025 Adirondack Publishing Company | https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com | 54 Broadway Great Britain Bobsleigh started 2025 with an historic World Cup win in Winterberg on Sunday afternoon Arran Gulliver and Greg Cackett took gold in the blue ribband 4-man race in Germany in what was their first start together for 13 months No non-German crew had won in Winterberg since Russia’s Alexander Zubkov in 2012 - a run that included 14 World Cup races and two World Championships - but the Brits went quickest in both heats to begin the new year in the perfect fashion Hall and his team clocked a combined time of 1 minute 48.07 seconds to finish 19 hundredths of a second ahead of reigning back-to-back Olympic Champion and six-time 4-man World Champ Francesco Friedrich on his home ice and nearly half a second in front of Friedrich’s compatriot Adam Ammour in third It is a second British gold in Winterberg this weekend after Matt Weston won the men’s skeleton on Friday morning “To finish in first place here is incredible It’s been a very long time since anyone other than the Germans have won here,” said Hall whose team had to contend with a lengthy delay to start of the second run We’ve won so many silvers here so it’s great to finally get gold It’s also a bit of redemption for last year’s World Championships when we finished sixth when we’d wanted a medal We didn’t know what to expect going into it because we saw a lot of snow and rain forecast We came into it with Arran and Greg coming back from injuries and it was the first time Arran’s been on the sled since Innsbruck over a year ago “The guys all did great - they gave me an awesome platform “That put us in a great position in first after the first run but then the problems started with the forerunner crash the lengthy delay and the other crashes in Run 2 “It was very difficult to manage the energy levels and keep your head but we did that really professionally and we put in another good start “We’re extremely happy and we’re now hoping this is a stepping stone to being on top of the podium a few more times this season before we hit the World Championships in March.” No fewer than five German pilots had won in Winterberg since Zubkov’s success 13 years ago (Friedrich; Johannes Lochner; Nico Walther and Maximilian Arndt) and the hosts had taken a clean a sweep of the medals at last year’s World Championships in the most recent top tier race at the track prior to today’s competition The win was GB’s first since the exact same crew won in Altenberg in January 2023 - the last of three 4-man race wins that season - and it takes Hall’s World Cup medal tally to 23 GB were the second quickest starters in both heats in times of 5.09 and then 5.10 seconds despite the fact that the crew had not competed in a race together since December 2023 in Igls Cackett and Gulliver last season and the latter not fit to compete in the first part of the current campaign producing such impressive start times at the first time of asking is a massive statement as the countdown to the next Olympic Winter Games ticks close to a year Italy’s Patrick Baumgartner was agonisingly close to a first world Cup medal as he finished fourth just 0.03 seconds behind Ammour with Switzerland’s Michael Vogt in fifth and Lochner in sixth Today’s sensational gold comes only 24 hours after Hall and Lawrence just missed out on a medal in the 2-man on Saturday as they finished as the top non-German sled in a 27-strong field Hall and Lawrence were 0.28 seconds off the podium and exactly the same time clear of the South Korean sled in fifth as they clocked 1 minute 49.16 seconds over the two runs They were the fourth fastest in both runs having been the sixth and then fifth quickest starters in going 5.21 and then 5.22 seconds off the top Friedrich won his 50th 2-man World Cup gold as he beat Ammour by 0.21 seconds The GB2 crew of Adam Baird and Olly Butterworth came 16th in a time of 1.50.15 and Baird and Butterworth finished equal 17th with Austin Milward and Alex Cartagena in today’s 4-man race in a time of 1 minute 49.79 seconds The circuit heads to St Moritz in Switzerland next week with skeleton action scheduled for Friday and bobsleigh for Saturday and Sunday at the spiritual home of sliding Olympic medalist Deas retires BBSA Statement: Arran Gulliver Weston waiting 'til 2026 to celebrate In pics: World Championships - Bobsleigh Brand and Design by We Launch schedule and how to watch the live action from Winterberg Old rivalries will be renewed in the battle for continental titles as the season’s sixth luge World Cup and the 2025 European Championships take place this weekend in Winterberg With their wealth of sliding talent, Germany have often been favoured heading into previous European Championships. However, this year the tables have turned with the “hunted” becoming the “hunter” as Austrian luge specialists head to Winterberg in formidable form, having won all but one of the titles on offer in the last edition. As well as European honours, World Cup points are up for grabs, with non-European nations eligible to compete in Winterberg while not ranking in the standings for the European Championships. Read on to discover the athletes, schedule and how to watch the upcoming Luge European Championships in Germany. Picture by 2024 Getty ImagesNico Gleirscher the 27-year-old is taking nothing for granted as he aims to top the podium for the first time having won European silver in 2024 and bronze in 2022 but unfortunately the privilege was short-lived,” he told Olympics.com I have resolved to savour this feeling for longer Even if it's just a snapshot – as we know the final result is what counts – the yellow jersey gives you an extra boost.” who despite winning five World Championships golds has never been victorious at the European Championships chasing women's singles gold in Winterberg is something she is relishing As she told the International Luge Federation: “I have to chase now but it’s also fun being the hunter instead of the hunted.” Taubitz will be hunting down not one but two Austrian sliders in the women’s singles as she aims to improve on her third place in the World Cup standings while wresting the European titles back to Germany with the top three separated by only 29 points View this post on Instagram A post shared by FIL Luge (@fil_luge) and stay updated with results and reactions on the FIL’s Facebook Book your tickets and hop on the bus at a pick-up point near you The Winterberg will again be running several times a week between the Netherlands and the heart of Winterberg in the German countryside from December 2023 until March 2024 How cool is this: a luxury coach that takes you to the snow slopes where you can hop off near everything you need the bus brings you home safely to the Netherlands on the same day winter hiking or racing downhill on a sled or simply enjoying a wellness retreat and an après-ski experience a day in Winterberg is a real snow vacation like rental of ski gear can also be booked directly online This could be exactly the winter sport experience you've always been dreaming of without spending too much money or going too far afield so you can have the snow trip of your dreams Simply choose which Dutch city or town you wish to book the round trip from and reserve your bus tickets online Your departure time from the Netherlands depends on which Dutch city you travel from No matter which city you choose as your pickup point you will be arriving at the above time at Winterberg allowing you to spend the whole day there to enjoy the snow Here are some of the winter holiday activities you can enjoy at Winterberg: What are you waiting for? Book a day trip to go skiing, snowboarding or cross-country hiking in the snow at Winterberg. Book your tickets on the Winterbergbus website. Video evidence, NHLer testimony raise questions in world junior sexual assault trialThe National |May 2Video4:45 Trump repeats 51st state taunt as Carney prepares for White House visitThe National |May 5Video11:28 It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem a fund advised by Winterberg Advisory GmbH has recently acquired its nucleus asset in Switzerland Build and Technologize platform in the area of accredited Testing Inspection and Certification Services and plans to acquire 3-7 Swiss small and medium enterprises in the next 5 years together with funds advised by renowned European small-cap specialist Yana Investment Partners have established TIC Holding Schweiz AG as a platform to build a leader in the Swiss accredited testing The first nucleus asset has recently been acquired Details of the first acquisition will be published shortly and Certification (TIC) has been a focus for private equity groups for decades and environmental standards have further fueled this trend and the essential nature of its services make it a reliable investment President of the Board of TIC Holding Schweiz and Partner in Winterberg states: "After having launched Healthcare Holding in 2021 we are excited to start our second platform in Switzerland which we currently view as one of the most attractive markets on the European continent access to talent and thriving SME sector holds many opportunities for small-cap Buy After more than a decade of investing in Switzerland we have built strong partnerships with industry Hence we are very confident that we can successfully execute our strategy." Founding Partner of Yana Investment Partners and designated Board Member of TIC Holding Schweiz adds: "Having built a relationship with Winterberg over  several years we are very happy to become an anchor investor in their TIC Buy & Build in combination with a largely unconsolidated landscape of SMEs in Switzerland is a tremendous investment opportunity.  Testing inspection and certification play a key role in maintaining safety and environmental standards in industrial and adjacent sectors and are therefore key in building a sustainable and eco-friendly future." Yana Investment Partners engages with institutional investors and asset managers to invest directly in outstanding privately held companies across Europe Yana is an active asset owner in highly attractive entrepreneurial "off-market" investments in an innovative Investments are made by systematically partnering with independent private equity sponsors on a deal-by-deal basis with a focus on small-cap investments For media inquiries, please contact Kaja Funke, presse@tic-holding.ch For further information about Winterberg Advisory GmbH and Winterberg Group AG, please visit www.winterberg.group. 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All Rights Reserved. 4 months agoDuration 1:17:40IBSF World Cup Winterberg: Women's skeleton heat 14 months agoSportsDuration 1:17:40Watch the opening runs of the women's skeleton World Cup event from Winterberg, Germany. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Two superb drives by Brad Hall, supported by the braking skills of Greg Cackett, Arran Gulliver and Royal Marine Taylor Lawrence, delivered a landmark win in the second four-man IBSF World Cup race of the season in Winterberg, Germany. Taking a narrow first-heat lead into the second run, the British team held off stiff competition from three German sleds as well as those from Italy and Switzerland to finish with a combined time of 1 minute 48.07. The victory was all the more impressive given the deteriorating track conditions caused by rain. The result marks Team GB's first four-man win in Winterberg in 20 years. Meanwhile, the second British sled, driven by Royal Marine Adam Baird and featuring the RAF's Alex Cartagena, finished 17th in a race marred by delays and crashes during the second heat. Team Hall move second in the world four-man rankings and are fourth in the two-man as the World Cup moves to St Moritz next weekend. Please select at least one newsletter to subscribe to: 4 months agoDuration 1:11:20IBSF World Cup Winterberg: Men's skeleton heat 24 months agoSportsDuration 1:11:20Watch the second run of the men's skeleton World Cup event from Winterberg, Germany. Issues with signing in? Click here Need help signing in? Consulbrokers is an insurance broker with headquarters in Milan View all events > Your email address is already registered with us. Click here to receive a verification link and login. Don't have an account? Click here to register Please check your spam or junk folder just in case Timber Lake’s Cassidy Winterberg (bottom) struggles to escape the hold of an opponent during district SDWCA action two weeks ago Winterberg claimed third place honors in the girls 10-Under 96 division to advance to the SDWCA State Tournament in Rapid City on Friday through Sunday To access content, please login or purchase a subscription. 4 months agoDuration 52:24IBSF World Cup Winterberg: 2-man bobsleigh heat 24 months agoSportsDuration 52:24Watch the final heat of the IBSF World Cup 2-man bobsleigh competition from Winterberg, Germany. Fancy a ski trip? How about a daytrip, not too far away from the Dutch border? Enter and you could be one of three winners to win bus tickets from the Netherlands to a winter sports destination IamExpat and Winterbergbus are giving away three pairs of bus tickets to the winter vacation destination Winterberg Fill in the form below and tell us why you think you should be a winner but they are also offering discounts for the first 25 people who book Enter the discount code EXPAT10 at the checkout Discount code EXPAT10 (valid for the first 25 IamExpat readers who book) Enjoy a day in Winterberg with Winterbergbus - this winter's coolest day trip Enter the giveaway and you could be going for free You can hop on the bus at a pick-up point near you The Winterbergbus will again be running several times a week between the Netherlands and the heart of Winterberg in the German countryside from December 2023 until March 2024 the bus brings you safely home to the Netherlands the same day This could be exactly the winter sport experience you've been dreaming of Simply choose which Dutch city or town you wish to book the round trip from. Your departure time from the Netherlands depends on which Dutch city you travel from. No matter which city you choose as your pickup point, you will be arriving at the above time at Winterberg What are you waiting for? Enter the giveaway to be in with a chance of winning a day trip to go skiing, snowboarding or cross-country hiking in the snow at Winterberg. Find out more on the Winterbergbus website at the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012 in Innsbruck – where she was victorious – Jacqueline Lölling became European and world champion six years later in 2017 and won the IBSF Skeleton World Cup in 2017 and 2018 taking the silver medal behind Lizzy Yarnold (Great Britain) Jacqueline Lölling began skeleton racing at age 12 she participated in her first international competition on the Cesana Pariol Olympic track (Italy) She was crowned German champion at age 15 in December 2011 and went to the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012 as the favourite In a single heat (the first descent was cancelled due to weather conditions) "It was difficult because of the snow and now I am very happy that it has ended so well," reflected the German after the event "We came to the track many times to prepare After taking the bronze in the 2012 Junior World Championships in Igls Jacqueline won two gold medals in her age category in Winterberg in 2014 and in Altenberg in 2015 Jacqueline's second junior world title led to her selection for her first IBSF World Championships she won the silver medal behind the Olympic champion the German prodigy joined the World Cup circuit and mounted the podium for each of her first three races (third in Altenberg After just missing out on the podium (finishing fourth) at the European Championships in St Moritz the national runner-up – to Tina Hermann – took two more World Cup podium places to finish second overall behind her compatriot It was in 2017 that she advanced to the highest international level with her first victory in the World Cup on 6 January in Altenberg she won the European title in one heat on the Winterberg track with a lead of 0.16 seconds over the Austrian Janine Flock before taking two World Championship gold medals on the Königsee track: in the mixed team event (men's skeleton two-man bobsleigh and two-woman bobsleigh) where she played a decisive role in securing Germany's victory the youngest world champion of all time in her discipline by beating Tina Hermann by 0.25 seconds and Lizzy Yarnold by 0.73 seconds over three runs the second run having been cancelled because of a snowstorm Jacqueline prepared for PyeongChang 2018 in the most convincing of ways: the final of the skeleton World Cup was also an Olympic test event taking place on 17 March on the Alpensia track setting the sliding centre's first track record of 52.75 on her second run in the process to take her third World Cup victory of the season and the overall title with a total of 1,591 points world champion and winner of the Crystal Globe Jacqueline explained that turn 9 of the track "is the most difficult" and that she had to continue working "to find the perfect line Jacqueline won the World Cup Crystal Globe for the second year running: four victories in nine races between November and January At the Olympic event that began on 16 February 2018 at the Alpensia Sliding Centre announced her arrival by placing second in the first heat 0.08 seconds behind Lizzy Yarnold (Great Britain) with Flock trailing by 0.02 seconds and Yarnold by 0.1 seconds A final effort allowed her to secure the silver medal 0.45 seconds behind a supersonic Yarnold in the fourth and final descent The Olympic silver medallist was clearly delighted with the result: "In the final run I felt an enormous amount of pressure because we were so close It means a great deal to me to represent Germany We have a very good team and I am pleased to be a part of it," she said after the event Jacqueline Lölling still has many years ahead of her to add to her medal haul and we will no doubt see her battling it out for gold at Beijing 2022 Brad Hall and Royal Marine Taylor Lawrence finished 4th in the fourth round of the two-man IBSF World Cup at Winterberg The duo completed the run in 1 minute 49.16 seconds just 0.9 seconds behind Germany's Francesco Friedrich who set a new track record on his way to securing his 50th two-man World Cup win Hall and Lawrence were edged out by two other German teams who finished ahead of them in the standings alongside PARA Ollie Butterworth in his debut two-man World Cup race The four-man competition is set to take place tomorrow at Winterberg It was a golden start to 2025 for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association as their athletes enjoyed double delight at the IBSF World Cup in Winterberg Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Arran Gulliver and Greg Cackett made history on Sunday, becoming the first non-German team to win four-man bobsleigh gold at Winterberg in 13 years The Brits were fastest on both runs as they clocked a combined time of 1:48.07 to finish 19 hundredths of a second ahead of reigning back-to-back Olympic Champion Francesco Friedrich on his home ice The win was GB’s first four-man success since the exact same crew won in Altenberg in January 2023 and it takes Hall’s World Cup medal tally to 23 Bobsleigh success came 48 hours after Matt Weston had struck gold in the men’s skeleton to move top of the overall World Cup rankings has secured a medal at every race so far this season Amelia Coltman finished fifth in the women’s race missing out on a medal by 0.19 seconds having sat second after the first run The circuit now heads to St Moritz in Switzerland with skeleton action scheduled for Friday 10th January followed by bobsleigh on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th Picture credits: Viesturs Lacis | IBSF.  British Skeleton started the new year with World Cup gold as Matt Weston won in Winterberg on Friday morning who became the country’s first men’s Overall World Cup Champion for 16 years last season beat the rest of the field by more than half a second in Germany The 27-year-old clocked 1 minute 53.12 seconds at the track where he won World Championship silver a year ago Weston sat second by four hundredths of a second after the first run before blowing the field away in the final heat after improving from the seventh best start in Run 1 to the quickest in Run 2 He adds gold to three silvers and two bronze from the first five races of the 2024/25 campaign and now takes over from team mate Marcus Wyatt at the head of the World Cup standings with two races remaining with Wyatt second with 1197 and reigning World and Olympic Champion Christopher Grotheer third with 1100 What a way to start the new year!” said Weston but it’s been a while since I won gold and I desperately wanted one today To get that in the first race after Christmas means it’s pretty much a dream start to 2025 “The weather was pretty unpredictable and tough to deal with Marcus got dealt a bad hand and it was really difficult to get a good push out of the spur because of the snow “I was really happy with Run 2: it was really smooth and I pushed well when it mattered most “I’m determined to retain my World Cup title and I want my World Championship crown back so today is a decent confidence boost.” Today’s win makes it back-to-back men’s golds for Great Britain after Wyatt pipped Weston to first place in Sigulda before Christmas It takes British Skeleton’s World Cup medal total to 14 this term eclipsing the historic tally they set in 2022/23 with fellow Brit Laurence Bostock 16th in a 39-strong field on his first World Cup start since 2022 Austria’s Samuel Maier took silver 0.58 seconds shy of Weston as Grotheer won bronze on home ice Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych matched his career best by finishing fourth Matt Weston won his sixth medal in as many races Amelia Coltman finished fifth in the women’s race as she missed out on a medal by 0.19 seconds The 28-year-old was in silver medal position after the first run and on target to add to the gold she won in South Korea earlier this season but dropped back in Run 2 as she clocked an overall time of 1 minute 57.14 seconds Freya Tarbit placed 13th and Tabby Stoecker 16th as they came down in 1.57.39 and 1.57.61 respectively The British trio all sit inside the top eight in the world rankings with just two races to go this term Coltman moves up to fourth in the overall standings with Tarbit fifth and Stoecker eighth as GB targets a first female overall medalist since double Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold a decade ago Austria’s Janine Flock took gold in Winterberg meaning she has now won more skeleton World Cup medals than any other woman in history Anna Fernstaedt won silver and Olympic Champion Hannah Neise claimed bronze Neise leads the overall standings from Flock with Kimberley Bos in front of Coltman and Tarbit Great Britain then missed out on a medal in the skeleton team event as late start draws amid deteriorating track conditions and a false start made victory in Winterberg a challenge too far With the two British teams starting last of the 36 sleds Stoecker and Wyatt were seventh after Stoecker fell foul of the reaction timing rule that only features in the team event Wyatt was the third fastest of the male sliders but the false start left them with too much to do to make the podium a month after they won the first team race of the season in Altenberg Weston was again the quickest male athlete on the day but Coltman came down 11th of the women leaving their combined time just over a second shy of race winners Dan Zhao and Qinwei of China Flock and Maier won silver for Austria and China took bronze via Yuxi Li and Zheng Lin Bobsleigh takes central stage over the weekend with two British teams entered in the 2-man event on Saturday before the women’s and 4-man action on Sunday with skeleton action scheduled for Friday morning and afternoon at the spiritual home of sliding Jaroslav Rudis’s latest novel follows the 99-year-old Wenzel Winterberg on what is a quirky European take on the buddy road-trip story Marx claimed that ‘men make their own history’ with the weight of dead generations upon them with the old man proclaiming: ‘The Battle of Königgrätz runs through my heart.’ He then rambles on about its ‘half a million ghosts’ before blaming the battle for the loss of his first wife and condemned the surviving families and the rest of Central Europe to the tragic 20th century It is difficult for the reader to distinguish the wit from the calamity but the writing is all the more compelling for that Following this dramatically reductive introduction to modern European history told through the ranting of a nonagenarian we find ourselves journeying with the unlikely couple on a rail journey from Berlin to Sarajevo to investigate the death of Winterberg’s fiancée in 1938 Winterberg remains obsessed with the fate of Lenka Morgenstern and decides that before he dies he must discover who her murderer was and both men find themselves leaving Berlin by train Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3 Already a subscriber? Log in fintech consultant Bill Winterberg found himself taking on a new role Without live conferences, there was no more video coverage to produce for the FPPad website Nor was there a need to travel to client sites But Covid-19-related challenges at his local school district created a new opportunity “That was my full-time job for the last two years I also did some work in video production for a local health care institution because they had to pivot to virtual work.” While Kitces and Moore are already well-known voices in the field Winterberg said he can add to the company’s capacity to execute on plans “Most people who know Michael … the guy never stops It seems like he never sleeps,” Winterberg said “I’m another resource in terms of creating that content that resonates with the AdvicePay audience and taking things off their plate so the burden is not fully on them.” Part of the job will mean continuing what he did at FPPad — creating digital content campaigns and engagement strategies to educate independent advisers large RIAs and even broker-dealers on how they can introduce the fee-for-service business model that AdvicePay supports Winterberg will also be guiding product strategy so the fintech fits what various advisory firms providers and clients are demanding in terms of functionality and transparency “I understand the opportunities in the marketplace and will drive the AdvicePay road map so we’re the leading technology player in the fee-for-service trend,” he said [More: Advisers are adopting fee-for-planning models — and charging accordingly] Winterberg will also be heading up partnerships with other technology vendors to create integrations between AdvicePay and the rest of advisers’ tech stacks Winterberg first met Kitces in 2005 as fellow young financial planners in Maryland and Moore subscribed to FPPad in the early days of launching his planning career Winterberg has worked closely with both of them since then acting as a judge for the XYPN conference’s fintech competition and contributing articles to Kitces’ website “We’ve known and admired Bill’s efforts to support advisor technology and expand advisor innovation throughout the last decade,” Kitces said in a statement “He’s been a big promoter and supporter of the fee-for-advice financial planning approach and we couldn’t be more delighted to have him help drive our growth strategy here at AdvicePay and expand the reach of financial planning to the next generation of clients.” Winterberg will be working full-time for AdvicePay and plans to sunset the FPPad brand [More: AdvicePay launches tool for enterprise oversight]