Medal day started badly

FOUR times medal winner Menna became Brtiain’s most successful winter paralympian when she and guide Jen Kehoe won Britain’s only gold of the games.

Speaking after taking gold in the Women’s Slalom, Menna said: “I can’t believe it, the whole journey has been really long, with quite a few ups and downs along the way but it’s just amazing to be here.

“Jen calmed me down, as did the coaches, family and everyone really, we had a giggle and did some singing and just got everything out of the system.

“Our main aim was to just go and have fun and try and beat our previous time, we just tried to ski as well as we can.

“We fought the whole way down, Jen just told me to go from halfway down so we did.

“We went out with a bang.”

But the final day of competition for the pair didn’t start off too well for the pair after Menna suffered a bump to the head.

Menna added: “A ski belt fell off one of the racks on the bus and hit me on the head, then we weren’t able to inspect the lines how we wanted to. Without that I felt more panicked, I didn’t know the course as much as I hoped but Jen went through it with me so many times to make sure we had it. I was exhausted after this whole period of racing, the nerves and the emotion were just overwhelming so that didn’t make for a great start.”

She added: “Having fun changed everything a lot, we just went out there and did our own thing and looked at the achievements. I don’t think what’s happened this week will ever sink in, it was amazing to finish the second race and to win that bronze, my confidence just boosted so high. We just went for it from thereon and I’m so proud of how we came back from that, we worked so hard and left everything out on that hill.”