Amy Williams gave Great Britain a bullion award shot in the arm on day eight of Vancouver Winter Olympics and certified her love for the Whistler track, on that the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed last week.
Williams, heading after the opening day of the women"s skeleton, hold her haughtiness brilliantly to sign feat with dual some-more lightning discerning runs to get Britain"s award transport up and running.
"I love this track," she pronounced after winning. "Once you get over the fright cause you sense to love it and the speed is your friend. You"ve got to work with it and relax and if you do that it"s a great lane to slide."
Williams insisted she had never let her on all sides as overnight personality fool around on her mind. "I astounded myself since I wasn"t unequivocally nervous," she said. "I slept positively ideally and I was utterly excited. It doesn"t feel similar to an Olympic Games - it only feels similar to a normal World Cup foe solely with some-more people cheering for me.
Related LinksWilliams wins Olympic bullion for BritainIce black Williams sets top standards"I"m not unequivocally great at census data so I didn"t realize I"m the initial [individual] bullion medallist for a prolonged time. But I think it shows that if you have the integrity any nation can be great at any foe and you only have to combine and do your best."
Williams shrugged off a bid by a little opposition nations to scupper her golden impulse by camp protests that her grooved steel sheet contravened International Bobsleigh Federation guidelines. The initial criticism done by the United States was fast thrown out on Thursday night, whilst a second, lodged by the Canadian group moments after Williams" victory, suffered the same fate.
Hinting strongly at gamesmanship, Williams said: "It doesn"t warn me - if someone"s discerning people wish to move them down. I wasn"t disturbed about it since all I have had been checked by the jury. Everyone likes to fool around head-games."
Kristan Bromley could not repeat Williams" success in the men"s skeleton. In fifth place after the opening dual heats, the 37-year-old former universe hold up slipped down the rankings after his third run of 52.7sec and accomplished in sixth place after a last run of 52.80. Canada"s Jon Montgomery took the bullion with Latvian Martins Dukurs receiving china and Russian Alexander Tretyakov the bronze.
Britain"s women curlers endured a churned day, losing 11-4 opposite Japan, carrying progressing knocked about European champions Germany 7-4. Britain have right away won 3 and lost dual of their five matches. Nineteen-year-old jump over Eve Muirhead constructed a produce that gave Britain dual scoring stones and cut the Japanese lead to 4-3 after five ends.
Japan lengthened their lead to 6-3 after 7 ends. Muirhead, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Kelly Wood battled tough and pulled a point at the behind of in the eighth finish for have it 6-4. But Japanese jump over Moe Meguro"s produce chalked up five points in the ninth finish to hang up victory.
Muirhead had been inspirational opposite the Germans. She effectively staid the compare in the ninth finish when her produce mill left Britain scoring 3 stones and gave them a 7-4 lead going in to the last end. There was no approach at the behind of for the Germans who conceded the compare mid by the last end.
Figure skating hermit and sister pairing John and Sinead Kerr launched their Olympic debate with a new season"s most appropriate opening in ice dance"s mandatory dance programme at the Pacific Coliseum. The Kerrs, second but last to skate, scored 37.02 points and accomplished in eighth place.
"We skated flattering great and we were flattering happy with it," John Kerr said. "We"re assured we can set up on this and we"re flattering parsimonious with the dual teams on top of us so hopefully we can have dual some-more purify skates and see what happens."
Sinead added: "We"ve been precision unequivocally well heading up to this and we"ve got a personal most appropriate so we can"t ask for some-more than that. We"ve got a little great throng appreciative routines to come so that"s when we goal everybody will get vehement and get at the behind of us.
"We only need to keep relaxed, not get as well parsimonious and shaken meditative about it being the Olympic Games and only movement how we know we can skate."
Britain"s alternative pairing, Nick Buckland and Penny Coomes scored 25.68 points and accomplished in 21st place. Russian span Oskana Domina and Maxim Shabalin led the approach with 43.76 points.
In the men"s Super-G mountainous skiing foe Britain"s Ed Drake accomplished 32nd clocking up a time of 1:33.20. Drake, 24, who will be at the behind of in movement in the rescheduled super total eventuality on Sunday, pronounced of his run: "I skied a little sections unequivocally well, but there were as well most mistakes. I didn"t ski as well as I hoped to or longed for to, but I had a little great turns in there. It"s only a box of stringing them all together.
"It"s no tip that these Games are not unequivocally where I"m seeking to rise - it"s really a springboard to the subsequent Games."
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