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    Winter Olympics 2026: How Matt Weston and British skeleton bounced back from 2022 disappointment

    February 11, 2026No Comments2 Mins Read
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    So why are Great Britain so good at skeleton?

    The athletes all point to one specific weapon in their armoury – each other.

    With no ice track, the British squad have had to find their advantage elsewhere and that has largely come in their camaraderie.

    “We only get to slide down an ice track about 120-150 times a year. Each run is less than a minute, so you’re looking at less than two hours actually doing the sport every year,” said Wyatt.

    “But if you talk to other athletes, learn from their experiences and share what you’re doing, suddenly you’ve doubled, tripled, quadrupled your knowledge.

    “The day before a race, I might be struggling on a corner, so I ask Matt: ‘What are you doing on corner four?’ He tells me, I try that, it works for me, and lo and behold when the race comes, I might beat him.

    “That’s fine, because he knows that next week when he’s struggling somewhere else, I’ll help him out and he might beat me.”

    Weston added: “On the track, [Wyatt’s] the first person I want to beat, I’m the first person he wants to beat.

    “But when we’re training, when we’re working stuff out, we work together so well, and I think that’s what separates us apart [from the rest].”

    Between them, Weston and Wyatt won every men’s World Cup this season – the first time one nation has done so.

    It bodes well for the Winter Olympics, with the skeleton action getting under way on Thursday, and there is only one potential outcome in Weston’s mind.

    “My sights are set on gold. That’s the only colour I want to come home with,” he said.

    “It sounds funny saying this as a two-time world champion, but I don’t really feel like I’ve been able to put down what I really feel like I can.

    “There’s more in there.”

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