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announced that Parsons was retiring from competition, after starting the season's first two races in Lake Placid, and that teammate Jerry Rice will take his place on the World Cup roster.
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at the Bath bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track. He made his Europa Cup debut in 2008, and finished fourth at the 2009 and 2010 IBSF Junior Skeleton World Championships.
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own a company which produces sleds. Parsons is in a relationship with Australian skeleton racer
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in France. In 2013, Parsons won a bronze medal at a World Cup event in
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between the 2014 and 2018 Olympics, finishing seventh in
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debut in December 2012, finishing 17th in a race at
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Index

Dominic Parsons

2018 Winter Olympics
London
England
Great Britain
Skeleton
Olympic Games

2018 Pyeongchang
Men
skeleton
2018 Winter Olympics
Pyeongchang
2014 Winter Olympics
Sochi
Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club
skeleton
Adam Pengilly
Skeleton World Cup
La Plagne
Calgary
2014 Winter Olympics
Sochi
2014–15
2015–16 Skeleton World Cups
2016–17 Skeleton World Cup
St. Moritz
World Championships
2015

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