Winter Olympics 2022 - Greg Rutherford reflects on 'incredible experience' representing Team GB in 'brutal' bobsleigh

Greg Rutherford says it was an «incredible experience» representing Great Britain as a bobsleigher after missing out on the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The 2012 London Olympic champion came out of retirement last year in an attempt to qualify for the Winter Games. Ad/> The 35-year-old came back from a shoulder injury last month to make his official bobsleigh debut in driver Lamin Deen's sled in January, but the team failed to achieve the qualifying standard of three top-12 World Cup finishes this season, which meant Rutherford would not be competing in Beijing.

/> Beijing 2022'A fantastic honour' — Rutherford on competing for Great Britain again2 HOURS AGO Rutherford says he will remember his experience of a new sport fondly and enjoyed being part of a team for the first time in his professional career. «It was an incredible experience,» he told Eurosport in the Cube. «First and foremost you sort of understand what it is like to be in a team environment.

I spend my entire career as an individual and I'm at a stage in my life it was probably the best thing for me to be around other people. »I had to learn a skill that is far more difficult than it looks. When you watch it on TV it looks so serene and really calm.

When you are in a bobsleigh, and I was at four so I'm the guy that is having to pull the brakes. You are thrown around like you are in a washing machine. It is absolutely brutal.

«It was an incredible experience and what I wanted to show is I'm getting a bit older. In sports terms at 35 you're considered relatively old and from that point of view I wanted to show that you can turn your hand to other things. You can try new things, push your body in ways where hopefully you can get something out of you.