Kristan Bromley would consider returning to British skeleton set up

Kristan Bromley has refused to rule out a return to the British skeleton fold as the team counts the cost of a calamitous series of performances at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

All four British sliders finished well off the pace despite a £6.5million funding cycle in the wake of the sport’s historic three-medal haul in Pyeongchang in 2018.

In contrast, Bromley, a former world champion and four-time Olympian, is performance director of the Netherlands team for whom Kimberley Bos won a bronze medal on a fraction of the British budget.

Bromley, who retired from competing in 2015 and has not been directly involved in the British programme for over a decade, runs Bromley Technologies with his brother Richard, which provided the sled for Australian silver medallist Jackie Narracott.

Bromley told the PA news agency: “My door is always open and it has always been open. The British programme wanted to go down a different path and I respected that.

“I went down my own path and I wanted to work with international athletes and broaden my experience base outside the British programme.

“I’ve done that now, I’ve had a successful six years but as for the next move, who knows. All sports, successful or not, go through a cycle and the British programme obviously has some questions to ask.”

Bromley built the sleds upon which Alex Coomber and his partner Shelley Rudman won medals at the 2002 and 2006 Games respectively. Richard Bromley was performance director for the South Korean team for whom Sungyun Bin won gold in Pyeongchang in 2018.

Bromley described Britain’s performance in Beijing, which saw Matt Weston score the highest finish with 15th in the men’s event, as a “backward step”, amid speculation elsewhere that recently-introduced