Team GB have plenty of medal hopes for 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, says Amy Williams
Friday 2 February 2018 10:35, UK
Britain is sending its best ever Winter Olympic team to Pyeongchang 2018, according to skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams.
Team GB is sending its largest contingent to a winter Games, with 59 athletes aiming to return home from South Korea with a record medal haul.
Williams won skeleton gold at Vancouver 2010 and says the British team competing in this month's Winter Olympics is littered with genuine medal contenders.
"I really believe we are taking our strongest ever Team GB," Williams told Sky Sports News.
"Elise Christie has been phenomenal in the short-track speed skating. She's been winning medals all over the place for the last few years.
"She so narrowly missed out four years ago in Sochi. She's really fighting to get at least one if not two medals.
"You've got Eve Muirhead and her curling team who won silver four years ago. She's definitely wanting to up one and she has had the results.
"You've got [snowboarders] Katie Ormerod, Jamie Nicholls and Aimee Fuller. All of them have been bringing home World Cup medals and have got podium finishes. I think it's a really exciting time for winter sport."
On Thursday, The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned lifetime bans for 39 Russian athletes found guilty of doping by the International Olympic Committe.
Eleven of those remain barred from competing in South Korea but uncertainty persists over whether the 28 athletes cleared can compete in Pyeongchang.
"I'm confused by it all," Williams added. "I've been trying to read up on what is happening on who is allowed to compete and who isn't.
"It's hard as an athlete because you want to know you are competing against clean athletes. Anyone who isn't clean shouldn't be competing. You can only trust and hope the right decisions has been made. If they haven't you'd want them changed.
"But as an athlete when you stand up on your competition day you're not thinking about anything like that you've got an empty brain you want to perform you want to do your best knowing you are a clean athlete and that's all you think about."
