Winter Olympics 2026: Why Team GB are so good at skeleton

So what do the British athletes put it down to? The answer is each other, their team 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,” Marcus Wyatt – who finished ninth in Cortina – told BBC Sport last year.

“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.

“In the last couple of years especially, me and Matt have bounced off each other, we’re sharing ideas.

“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.

“It’s this team ethos, working together, to get the best out of everyone.”

Weston adds: “I think that’s why we’re so good.

“On the track, he’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].”