So what do the British athletes put it all the way down to? The reply is one another, their crew camaraderie.
“We solely get to slip down an ice observe about 120-150 occasions a 12 months. Every run is lower than a minute, so that you’re lower than two hours truly doing the game yearly,” Marcus Wyatt – who completed ninth in Cortina – informed BBC Sport final 12 months.
“However in case you speak to different athletes, be taught from their experiences and share what you are doing, out of the blue you have doubled, tripled, quadrupled your information.
“Within the final couple of years particularly, me and Matt have bounced off one another, we’re sharing concepts.
“The day earlier than a race, I could be struggling on a nook, so I ask Matt, what are you doing on nook 4? He tells me, I strive that, it really works for me, and lo and behold when the race comes, I’d beat him.
“That is nice, as a result of he is aware of that subsequent week when he is struggling someplace else, I am going to assist him out and he would possibly beat me.
“It is this crew ethos, working collectively, to get the perfect out of everybody.”
Weston provides: “I believe that is why we’re so good.
“On the observe, he is the primary particular person I wish to beat, I am the primary particular person he needs to beat.
“However once we’re coaching, once we’re working stuff out, we work collectively so nicely, and I believe that is what separates us aside [from the rest].”
