WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 - Marcus Wyatt 'doesn't know what went wrong' after finishing 16th in the skeleton

Team GB's Marcus Wyatt was at a loss to explain his 16th-place finish in the skeleton at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. With teammate Matt Weston finishing in 15th, it was a surprisingly poor showing and with the women — Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley — also struggling in their event, the probability is that Team GB will return home without a medal in the skeleton — the first time that has ever happened since the sport's reintroduction as an Olympic event in 2002. Ad/> 30-year-old Wyatt — a debut Olympian — found it hard to see past his overriding disappointment in the aftermath.

“It was difficult out there, I’m really happy with how I came out today," he told Eurosport. «I thought I put down my two best runs. Two runs I wanted to come out and really do, I’m proud of how I slid today.

“But the result doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t really know where it’s gone. I don’t really know what to say at the moment.

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»To get here was one thing but I knew I really wanted and believed I could be challenging for a medal. /> “We’ll go away and learn some lessons. Hopefully in four years time we’ll come back stronger but this isn’t how I wanted to finish this race." Weston said that a review of the team's performance would encompass looking for answers across the board.

«I think a lot of questions are going to be asked from this event,» Weston said. «Some of them are going to be quite tough. /> »There is going to be a combination of things that didn't quite work.