Adele Nicoll is ready to get more Olympic experience under her belt after a error-strewn fourth run at Milano Cortina 2026.
The 29-year-old bobsledder made history yesterday as Britain's first ever woman to compete in the monobob at an Olympics.
She sat in a personal best of 11th place overnight and looked set to keep that form before a messy final run in Cortina which saw her fall back through the field and close out the competition in 18th place in a combined time of 4:01.86.
Her fourth run was her slowest by almost half a second, and Nicoll, who is making her Olympic debut in Italy, puts the performance down to a lack of experience at this level.
But with monobob now completed, she will immediately return for more, and this time with company, as Nicoll teams up with brakewoman Ashleigh Nelson for the two-woman bobsleigh later this week.
"Obviously my first thoughts are that I am extremely disappointed," she said.
"Sitting in 11th going into that final run was a season's best position for me to be in. The three solid runs showed what I am capable of.
"This track is extremely punishing of mistakes and I made far too many of them in that fourth run which saw me go to the back of the field.
"That was never what I anticipated and it's not reflective of my abilities as a pilot. I think it just shows the lack of Olympic environment experience.
"Hopefully the runs I did put down show that I have potential to do far better in the future.
"Should I have another experience in an Olympic Games in the future, I will this with me and I'm sure I will perform better next time."
Monday also saw the men's two-man bobsleigh get underway in Cortina, with Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence both competing for Team GB.
The duo won World Cup bronze in the event back in January but struggled on the Italian track and currently sit in eighth place overnight in a combined time of 1:51.54 after two runs.
“It was definitely a very difficult day," he said. "The track is extremely difficult to be consistent down, especially in a bobsleigh.
“We have seen a lot of people jumping all over the place. We didn’t quite do well enough on our second run, we lost quite a bit of time to some and gained on others.
“We need to go back to the drawing board and see what we can do better tomorrow.
"The German sleds are in a league of their own at the moment."