Workforce GB chiefs have hailed Britain’s best day at a Winter Olympics after celebrating two gold medals, within the combined snowboard cross and combined crew skeleton in Milano Cortina.
Tremendous Sunday began with Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale storming to a shock victory in Livigno, with Bankes dramatically overtaking the French crew with 4 turns remaining to take combined snowboard cross gold.
Lower than 5 hours later, Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston added a second British gold within the combined crew skeleton in Cortina after Weston overturned a 0.30sec deficit following Stoecker’s run to beat Germany by 0.17sec.
That end result additionally made Weston, who gained gold within the particular person occasion on Friday, the joint most adorned British Winter Olympian in historical past with Lizzy Yarnold. “I’m extraordinarily happy with what I’ve been in a position to obtain prior to now couple of days,” he mentioned. “To win the primary ever crew occasion is totally wonderful – and to win it with such an amazing teammate is the icing on the cake.”
Workforce GB’s chef de mission, Eve Muirhead, hailed the gold medals that put Britain into twelfth within the desk. “Getting two gold medals is simply unbelievable,” she mentioned. “Probably the most we’ve got ever had in British Olympic Winter historical past and for Matt, being probably the most adorned male winter Olympian of all time is one thing actually particular.”
Of the crew’s general efficiency, Muirhead mentioned: “It was a barely gradual begin, we knew that. However we had been affected person, we saved the vibe up. We saved very optimistic as a result of we knew we had been going to have alternatives to come back.”
It was not fairly an ideal day for Workforce GB, nevertheless. Mia Brookes was seen because the snowboard slopestyle favorite, having gained the world title as a 16-year-old. However she fell on each her runs in qualifying, ending sixteenth general, and misses out on the ultimate on Tuesday.
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