GB HOLDS SKELETON KEY

BRITAIN, a country with minimal snow and no ice track, has won a medal in the skeleton at every Games since it was reintroduced in 2002. How have they done it?

KIT Hi-tech suits, similar to those used by GB’s dominant cyclists, have drawn envious glances — and protests — from rivals.

HISTORY English soldiers devised the sport in the Swiss mountains in 1882. Team GB even won medals in 1928 and 1948, the only Games with skeleton before 2002.

FUNDING The £6.5m spent on GB skeleton is a quarter of the Winter budget, but British Skeleton chief Danny Holdcroft says their rivals invest ‘as much as we do’.