Amy Williams holds her nerve to win gold for Britain in bob skeleton
Great Britain joined the medals table at the Winter Olympics in emphatic style early this morning when Amy Williams won gold in the skeleton.
Williams, a 27-year-old from Cambridge, dominated Mbt shoes
the event from the start. In her four runs on the Whistler ice track, she managed to break the course record and then break it again. By her fourth run, the gold was hers to lose. Among the athletes left in her wake was Shelley Rudman, the Briton who won silver in the Turin Olympics four years ago.
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arrival in Whistler, but Williams leaves as Britain’s ninth gold medal-winner in Winter Olympics history. The last were the women’s curling team in Salt Lake City and before that came Torvill and Dean. Williams is the first individual gold medal-winner since Robin Cousins in Lake Placid in 1980.
“I started afresh today and really enjoyed it,” she Mbt said. And that was after her third run, a sense of triumph that was nothing compared with the delirium after the fourth.
Her gold medal is also a resounding statement for successful planning within British sport. UK Sport recognised skeleton as a horse worth backing and of the £5.8 million invested in winter sports in the four-year build-up to these Games, £2.1 million alone went to skeleton.
Williams has never won a race on the skeleton World mbt sale Cup series but the Whistler track is clearly to her liking because her best finish, second, came here last year. What is not to the liking of her competitors, though, was her hi-tech, aerodynamic helmet. On Thursday, after the first two runs, the United States team launched an official protest, arguing that the design of the helmet contravened federation rules. The Bobsleigh Federation rejected the objection.
There was speculation that a further protest would be Mbt launched after the final run. By nightfall in Whistler, though, Williams remained firmly the gold medal-winner.
