Olympic champion Amy Williams reveals her one key wish for Team GB as Beijing 2022 gets underway

Exponential investment into winter sports has transformed Team GB into a squad with record-breaking medal potential—but Olympic champion Amy Williams is adamant funding needs to keep up with British ambition.

On slopes and slides, mere hundredths of a second will decide who gets gold, silver and bronze in Beijing.

But behind the scenes, immense integers are instrumental to fractional gains, and Bath-based Williams is anxious to see if millions of additional pounds awarded to British winter athletes since her 2010 skeleton gold could lead to unprecedented success over the next few weeks.

“Athletes now train completely differently,” said Williams, 39, looking out at the track at British Bobsleigh and Skeleton's University of Bath headquarters.

“We didn’t even have a nutritionist, we only had a psychologist for a few hours before the Olympics. Now all of that is a day-to-day, weekly normality.

“It’s an exciting thing across all sports that the advances are there for the athletes to get better and better.

“It’s just those one per cents.

“One per cents in so many different areas, that might be one-tenth of a second for you in your sport. That could be a medal or no medal.”

If money talks, it would be sure to remind you that nearly a third of Britain’s 32 winter Olympic medals have come in the last two Games.

Team GB tied a team-best medal haul in South Korea, matching the five earned at Sochi 2014, with optimistic forecasters projecting as many as seven in Beijing across sports including snowboarding, skeleton and curling.

And if pounds produce progress, perhaps no one would be more grateful for the cash infusion than freestyle skier James Woods, who narrowly missed a medal in PyeongChang, finishing just 1.4 points out of