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So why are Great Britain so good at skeleton? <\/p>\n
The athletes all point to one specific weapon in their armoury – each other. <\/p>\n
With no ice track, the British squad have had to find their advantage elsewhere and that has largely come in their camaraderie.<\/p>\n
“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,” said Wyatt.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Weston added: “On the track, [Wyatt’s] the first person I want to beat, I’m the first person he wants to beat.<\/p>\n
“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].”<\/p>\n
Between them, Weston and Wyatt won every men’s World Cup this season – the first time one nation has done so.<\/p>\n
It bodes well for the Winter Olympics, with the skeleton action getting under way on Thursday, and there is only one potential outcome in Weston’s mind.<\/p>\n
“My sights are set on gold. That’s the only colour I want to come home with,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It sounds funny saying this as a two-time world champion, but I don’t really feel like I’ve been able to put down what I really feel like I can.<\/p>\n
“There’s more in there.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n