Charlotte Bankes hoped to “placed on a greater present” as her Olympic hoodoo continued with a quarter-final exit from the snowboard cross – in one other missed medal probability for Group GB.
Bankes, showing at her fourth Video games, is a former world champion and has 26 World Cup golds to her title, however an Olympic medal is the one which continues to evade her grasp.
Though slower than anticipated in her seeding run, the 30-year-old had certified quickest from her warmth however regarded off the tempo from the beginning of her quarter-final, crossing the end line final.
It was the identical story 4 years in the past in Beijing when Bankes exited on the similar stage, a crash guilty on that event.
Requested by BBC Sport how she was feeling, Bankes replied: “Misplaced.
“I really feel like I’ve finished precisely the identical as 4 years in the past, which could be very irritating.
“We have labored extremely onerous to enhance from that and I really feel it hasn’t made any distinction at this time.
“I have been fighting the monitor all week, however we thought we might discovered options.
“I actually needed this one.”
Bankes’ preparations for these Video games had not been ideally suited.
In April final yr she broke her collarbone, an harm she wanted additional surgical procedure – together with a bone graft from her hip – on in the summertime after it was discovered to not be therapeutic appropriately.
However she got here into the Video games again to full health and had gained a gold medal at a World Cup in China simply final month.
“It is a powerful one to swallow. I hoped to placed on a greater present, however it did not work out at this time,” she added.
“It may be a merciless sport. The group did all of the work behind me and I did not pull it off.”
Bankes has simply 48 hours to brush off her disappointment earlier than she returns to the beginning gate alongside team-mate Huw Nightingale within the blended group occasion.
Bankes and Nightingale had been topped world champions in 2023.
The Livigno Snow Park has not been a contented searching floor thus far for Group GB on the Milan-Cortina Video games, and the wait goes on for a primary Olympic gold or silver medal on snow.
Two fourth-place finishes for freestyle skier Kirsty Muir and snowboarder Mia Brookes got here earlier within the week, however each will return to motion within the coming days, as will Zoe Atkin, the present halfpipe world champion.
