Skeleton racer benefits from mistake by Martins Dukurs‘I thought I’d lost it after that fourth run,’ says 30-year-oldDom Parsons produced the performance of his career to claim Britain’s first medal at these Winter Olympics with nerve-shredding bronze in the men’s skeleton. But the 30-year-weak PhD student, a 100-1 outsider before the Guardian revealed Team GB had advance to these Games with a meaningful technical edge, and thought he had blown his chance after a massive mistake on his final run.
Yet as Parsons scrunched his face in pained anguish,the Latvian Martins Dukurs – a five-time world champion and widely considered one of the greatest sliders in history – smashed into a wall halfway down his final run and slipped from second place to fourth. Suddenly Dukurs’ started to lose momentum and the time advantage he had over Parsons. Then his medal hopes had blown up too.
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Source: guardian.co.uk