Amy Williams binds her haughtiness to win bullion for Britain in incline skeleton

Owen Slot, Chief Sports Reporter, Whistler & , : {}

Great Britain assimilated the medals list at the Winter Olympics in fatiguing character early this sunrise when Amy Williams won bullion in the skeleton.

Williams, a 27-year-old from Cambridge, dominated the eventuality from the start. In her 4 runs on the Whistler ice track, she managed to mangle the march jot down and afterwards mangle it again. By her fourth run, the bullion was hers to lose. Among the athletes left in her arise was Shelley Rudman, the Briton who won china in the Turin Olympics 4 years ago.

Rudman was the higher form contestant on attainment in Whistler, but Williams leaves as Britains ninth bullion medal-winner in Winter Olympics history. The last were the womens curling group in Salt Lake City and prior to that came Torvill and Dean. Williams is the initial particular bullion medal-winner given Robin Cousins in Lake Placid in 1980.

I proposed new currently and unequivocally enjoyed it, she said. And that was after her third run, a clarity of delight that was zero compared with the derangement after the fourth.

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Her bullion award is additionally a resounding matter for successful formulation inside of British sport. UK Sport recognized structure of the body as a equine value subsidy and of the �5.8 million invested in winter sports in the four-year rave to these Games, �2.1 million alone went to skeleton.

Williams has never won a competition on the structure of the body World Cup array but the Whistler lane is obviously to her fondness since her most appropriate finish, second, came here last year. What is not to the fondness of her competitors, though, was her hi-tech, aerodynamic helmet. On Thursday, after the initial dual runs, the United States group launched an central protest, arguing that the pattern of the steel sheet contravened association rules. The Bobsleigh Federation deserted the objection.

There was conjecture that a serve criticism would be launched after the last run. By sundown in Whistler, though, Williams remained resolutely the bullion medal-winner.