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Bronze for Team GB's Jenny Jones at Sochi Games

Team GB's Jenny Jones has won Britain's first medal at the Sochi Olympic Games. She came third in women's snowboarding slopestyle, taking the bronze medal. She is the first Britain to ever win a medal on snow.

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Jenny Jones 'very proud' of achievement for Britain

Team GB's first Sochi 2014 Olympic medal winner, Jenny Jones, says she feels "very proud" of her achievements in taking out the bronze in the women's snowboard slopestyle.

Read: Jenny Jones receives her Olympic bronze medal

Jenny Jones celebrates at the victory ceremony for the women's snowboard slopestyle competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake

Jones, a three-time X Games gold medallist, said today's result instilled a different feeling - a "feeling of doing something for your country".

"I think it really hit home when the (British) flag came up," she told the BBC.

"I was just like 'Oh my goodness, this is it. I've done this and it's for Great Britain'."

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