A brilliant bronze on the final day brought down the curtain on a record-breaking Milano Cortina 2026 for Team GB.
Freestyle skier Zoe Atkin followed in the footsteps of sister Izzy when she took halfpipe bronze on the last day of the Games, eight years after the elder Atkin won a slopestyle medal of the same colour in PyeongChang.
In doing so, the pair became the first siblings to win medals for Team GB at the Olympic Winter Games since 1924 when brothers Eric and Colin Carruthers won ice hockey gold in Chamonix.
That brought Team GB’s medal tally at these Games to five, matching the record tallies achieved in Sochi and PyeongChang.
Not only that, there were a number of firsts in Italy.
Matt Weston became the first Brit to win more than one gold medal at the same edition of the Olympic Winter Games, after he took men’s skeleton and mixed team skeleton, the latter alongside Tabitha Stoecker.
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale also broke new ground with their mixed team snowboard cross gold, Team GB’s first-ever on snow.
With three gold medals at a single Games, Team GB came away with multiple golds for the first time ever.
The final Saturday brought with it the only silver medal, Bruce Mouat and the men’s curling team coming desperately close to ending a 102-year wait for gold in that event.
Their final against Canada was the most-watched event of the Games on UK television, and was seen by more people than any at the Olympic Winter Games since Rhona Martin’s Stone of Destiny back in 2002.
But these Games were about more than just the medals.
There were the early near-misses. Kirsty Muir with a pair of heart-breaking fourth-place finishes, the first stinging more than the second, while Mia Brookes also had to settle for a spot just off the podium.
Mouat and Jen Dodds were fourth in the mixed doubles curling and Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit came desperately close to joining Stoecker and Weston on the podium in the skeleton.
Overall, Team GB came away with 24 top-10 finishes, an all-time record and a sign of the team’s growth across a variety of disciplines.
Four of those came from Andrew Musgrave in cross-country skiing, as he broke new ground with a best-ever performance in the men’s 10km freestyle where he came sixth, some going for his fifth Olympics.
Dave Ryding was also appearing on this stage for the fifth time, and bowed out in emotional circumstances after closing the chapter on the greatest career of any British alpine skier.
On skates, Niall Treacy reached the final of the men’s 1500m short track, while Ellia Smeding produced the best-ever result for a female speed skater with 11th in the women’s 1000m.
With history made and record books rewritten, all that is left to say is roll on 2030 and the French Alps!
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