Skeleton in the Winter Olympics

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Gordon Bennett!!

Are they mad?

Its making me anxious watching them.

Im not sure Ive seen this before, not sure how Ive missed it

And Amy Williams the time before her. We have a good track record in tea tray madness.

DH and I were assuming the half pipe commentators were absolutely stoned on weed as everything single thing was SO amazing and WOW and Incredible and Can’t Speak and and and ….. it was literally Bill n Ted on the microphones.

What’s so impressive is the amount of funding these athletes get, in terms of Team GB and sponsorship, is minuscule in comparison to what summer Olympic athletes get. They are doing it on a shoestring budget and it must be so much more expensive than training at the incredible athletics facilities summer athletes have access to.

Here comes the German flying ace again!

Please don't come 4th!

Good lad!

Held my breath through that!

Gooooooo Matttttttttt

Yaaayyy🥇🥇🥇
Local lad !!

YEEEEESSS!! Tea tray champions of the world! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

YAY!!!

Nope, I cannot believe Ive missed all this.

Like others are saying the summer olympics have nothing on this at all

Ah yes, The Baking Tray Death Chute. Love it. See also 'Falling Down A Precipice Whilst Happening To Be Wearing Skis' otherwise known as downhill ski-ing.

He smashed it! Nearly nine tenths difference is incredible.

Does your average prop forward run into a scrum at 80mph with a set of blades attached to his shins?

OMG how good was Matt? You could see as he went down how fast he cut those corners. So slick.

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Woohoo. He was fabulous!

I love them. They get excited about everyone regardless of nationality. They just enjoy great sportsmen and women.

Ex taekwondo and rugby. Who knew that would lead to Olympic gold!

Absolutely brilliant run!

Woooooooo. Brilliant. Well done Matt!

First gold in a Winter Olympics for a male Brit since 1980 (which was Robin Cousins in the figure skating).

What about Christopher Dean? Still a long time, though...

Well, this country might not have much going for it right now, but turns out we are very good at sliding down icy slopes very quickly on tea trays. 😂