#skeleton

#skeleton

As a TV pundit, it was hard to keep my emotions in check watching Great Britain's skeleton success because I knew what it meant to Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker to become Olympic champions Matt twice, of course. Their achievements are not only historic but the day-to-day impact will be so meaningful to both of them. I remember seeing kids' drawings of me and people dressing up as Lizzy and now I'm seeing it from a different perspective. I'm incredibly proud of them.

It is all after Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker won Great Britain's 10th and 11th Olympic medals in the sport, continuing a lineage that reaches back to 1928, when it was the winter sport of choice for the most reckless of a set of aristocratic adventurers. The 11th Earl of Northesk won bronze ahead of his teammate, and the pre-race favourite, Lord Brabazon of Tara. It is some legacy.

The Puerto Rican team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games isn't large. In fact, Kellie Delka stands just 5-foot-3 and weighs about 120 pounds. That's it; that's Puerto Rico's entire team. Her only event is skeleton, in which athletes travel at about 80 mph down an icy mile-long track with 16 turns. And she won't be in the hunt for a medal in Saturday's final rounds after finishing 24th of 25 athletes in Friday's two heats.

Hello! A golden morning for Team GB at last after Matt Skelton hurtled down the skeleton track last night to become the first British man to win individual gold since Robin Cousins at Lake Placid in 1980. It's all about the proprioception, you see. As the sun rises above the rooftops in Manchester (yes really) we can look forward to another haul of sparkling metal. Eight golds are on offer today across the slopes, the sliding centre and the ice .