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But now she is Britain’s greatest ever Winter Olympian, it’s all about knitting needles for Lizzy Yarnold.

On Monday, The Guardian’s Sean Ingle reported that Great Britain hopes to medal in skeleton – the women’s team has two gold medals in the last two Olympics – thanks to “revolutionary skinsuits that have helped British Cycling to dominate the last three summer Games”.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Gangneung, Yarnold and Deas were going for their final run in the women’s skeleton final at the Alpensia Sliding Centre.

Yarnold says she will take time to consider her future and is yet to decide whether she will aim to compete in Beijing 2022. There were two in the same figure skating event in 1908, when that sport was part of the Summer Games.

“I got into it by myself – there wasn’t any of the structure that there is now”, said Amy Williams, who won Britain’s first skeleton gold at Vancouver in 2010.

“I just tried to get the second run down and then fight another run”.

That left Flock as Yarnold’s sole competition for gold, but the Austrian got off to a slow start and was not making up any time when she had a hard hit midway down the track. But Flock was only 10th-fastest in the final heat, slipping all the way to fourth.

“I’m looking forward to being home, remember that I’m a bad cook and asking (husband) James to cook the dinner”.

Lindsey Vonn missed out on a medal in the women’s super-G, finishing equal sixth as the Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecka emerged as a surprise victor, 0.01 seconds faster than Austrian Anna Veith in silver.

Yarnold led by 0.08 after a track record on the first run, but afterwards told a British official she felt “dizzy”, later attributing the amusing turn to having a common cold and the chill in the Pyeongchang air. Deas’s time was only 0.02sec slower than Canada’s Elisabeth Vathje. There are four heats and the slider with the fastest combined time wins.

Given that, a margin like the one Yarnold had in the finale was nothing short of stunning.

Hermann’s last run was another quick one, at 51.86 seconds.

“Super Saturday” has always been associated with that memorable day back at London 2012 when Britain took six golds, including three at the Olympic Stadium via the performances of Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford.

“I knew I’d put down a strong fourth run and I was really pleased that I was consistent every single run I put it out there”, Daes said, summing up her entire race.

“I’ve found it relaxing for a few years – but I’m still not very good”.

Speaking to the BBC, USA Bobsled and Skeleton chief executive Darrin Steele said the ruckus had been timed perfectly for Team GB’s benefit. She has had an X-ray on her right ankle which has shown that there are no broken bones. When she talked about her cheering party, with her family and about 10 friends going wild in the stands, she cheered up immediately. “If I can be a role model to them that’s the most important thing”.

And they weren’t the only medals Team GB brought home this week.