Beijing 2022: Montell Douglas 'honoured' to becoming first British woman to compete at Summer and Winer Games

When Montell Douglas embarks on her first run in the two-women bobsleigh she will have achieved something no British woman has achieved before. Some 14 years after she lined up to run the 100m – coincidentally also in Beijing — Douglas is set to become the first woman to represent GB at both Summer and Winter Games. Ad/> Headline makers have been few and far between for Team GB thus far at these Games, so the 36-year-old’s place in the history books perhaps deserves to more of the spotlight.

Beijing 2022'Gutting to watch' — Rutherford left devastated by Hall and Gleeson crashYESTERDAY AT 20:07 “Yeah, extremely proud,” she told Eurosport. “And I actually didn't get a lot of time to reflect on it at the time [of qualifying]. “It's very much a whirlwind.

We were very much focused on qualifying, the team and getting out. “Just to be out here now and soak it all in — you don't get to experience many Olympic Games' I guess. Very few get to than one, but then also even fewer in summer and winter and I just feel honoured.

“I feel really blessed to be here and I can't wait to actually go out there now and compete.” Dave Ryding: the man who put British skiing on the map – Best of Beijing Can Team GB get on the medal table in Beijing? Curling leads hopes for the podium From a back garden to Beijing — how DIY helped McNeill and Douglas reach the Olympics In July of 2008, Douglas ran her personal best of 11.05 in the 100m, breaking the British women's record and sealing her first Olympic voyage in the process. In Beijing, she narrowly missed out on the semi-final of the 100m by five hundredths of a second and a baton mishap in the 4x100m relay final meant her experience was ultimately one of disappointment. She bounced back to claim