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Team GB's first medal winner for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026, skeleton athlete Matt Weston reflects on how winning his gold medal feels and how he celebrated.He also touches on his relationship with teammate Marcus Wyatt and how it felt to have his family and fiancée to celebrate with him in person.

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00:00I had three slices of pizza in the 24-hour food hall in Milan in Cortina sorry so no no
00:06massive
00:06celebrations just yet and still got another race to do still got another event to compete in so
00:12I'm staying focused and I'm kind of like the taste of this one so I want more of it so
00:18yeah
00:18yeah I've got to keep my head on for that it means a hell of a lot it feels so
00:22amazing it's
00:23such a such a turnaround from Beijing and I think that goes to show from the the hard work that
00:29not
00:29just me but the the team and everyone like that is put into getting to this point getting to this
00:35position yeah it's a massive group effort a team effort to be here and I'm just so proud that I'm
00:41able to be sat here with a medal let alone a gold one so it's yeah amazing I'm a massive
00:47perfectionist
00:48so there was things in most of the runs I could clean up I think my fourth run was probably
00:51my
00:51best one so you could probably see by the times and the track records that every run I was like
00:56fixing things and changing things and going from there so it's a really hard sport to be perfect
01:02in it so you're basically like controlled we're on the edge of grip going down the track so yeah it's
01:08really really hard to be perfect but that's kind of what we're aiming for and yes it's there's still
01:14things to clean up so I'm excited for the team race
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