The wait for a first medal goes on but the camp believe they have several aces to play, especially in the skeleton
Still the wait goes on. When Britain arrived in Milano Cortina there was heady talk of the country having one of its “most potent ever teams” for a Winter Olympics. So far, though, Team GB is still firing blanks.
It is not for the want of trying. Kirsty Muir missed out on a freeski slopestyle bronze by 0.41 points. Mia Brookes came impossibly close to making the biggest trick in Olympic big air snowboard history. While Britain’s mixed curlers, having coasted regally through the group stages, their mojo went awol when it mattered most.
Less than 48 hours ago, there were high hopes for three medals on Magic Monday. Now the dominant narrative is of heartbreak and pain, tears and tales of what might have been.
No wonder Team GB’s chef de mission, Eve Muirhead, has urged everyone to “stay positive” after three fourth-place finishes in barely 24 hours. But the fact she used the phrase four times in four answers, when speaking to the media after Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds’ bronze-medal defeat against Italy, suggested she was trying to convince herself as much as anyone else.
