Skeleton-Weston struggling to comprehend new golden status

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 20 : Double Olympic skeleton champion Matt Weston is one of the most articulate athletes you could ever meet but, even five days on from becoming the only Briton to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics, he says he is still lost for words.

"I feel like I've had a lifetime since kitting out four weeks ago, everything's gone so crazy," he told Reuters in an interview at the adidas HQ in the mountains above Cortina on Friday.

"There has been so much that's happened to me and the team, it's just been absolutely mental. The fact that I'm sat here with two gold medals around my neck - I'm just lost for words."

Weston followed Amy Williams (2010) and Lizzy Yarnold (2014 and 2018) as British skeleton singles gold medallists then teamed up with Tabby Stoecker to win a dramatic gold in the first running of the Mixed Team event.

That cemented Britain's place as the dominant force in the skeleton at the Olympics, despite the country not boasting a track, and has created a huge buzz at home with thousands of people enquiring about trying the 80mph sport.

"The fact that people have watched me and been inspired to actually go and apply is very surreal, but I'm so proud to be a part of that," said Weston, who discovered the sport through a British Olympic Association talent ID programme.

The team gold came hours after Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes won Snowboard Cross Mixed Team gold to make it the first time Britain had won two Winter Olympic golds on the same day.

"I like the fact that it's similar to Super Saturday at London 2012," he said. "That was a massive inspiration for me and watching some of those amazing athletes do some of those amazing things was part of the reason why I'm here today.

"So,