Team GB can finally end their Winter Olympics medal drought on Friday after a bittersweet start to the Games, with several stars finishing just off the podium.
That looks set to change with Matt Weston in the driving seat in the men’s skeleton, leading the field by 0.3 seconds and having broken the track record twice in Thursday’s first two heats.
Team-mate Marcus Wyatt is over a second off the pace and has work to do down in seventh, while there was more skeleton action earlier on as Britain’s Tabby Stoecker, Freya Tarbit, and Amelia Coleman got their Olympic campaigns underway sitting fifth, sixth and ninth overnight respectively.
But Charlotte Bankes, bidding to erase the memories of a disappointing Beijing Games as she competed in the snowboard cross, was knocked out in the quarter-final stage. An error out of the gate left the 30-year-old with too much ground to make up, despite a late lunge for the line.
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