CORTINA — Zoe Atkin made it Britain’s greatest ever Winter Olympics by grabbing bronze in the delayed halfpipe final.
Team GB’s much-vaunted freestyle team had failed to deliver a medal up until the last day of the Games when Atkin converted her top spot in qualifying into bronze in a high-quality final while the great Eileen Gu took gold.
The Brits had already won a record three golds at Milan-Cortina 2026, before adding curling silver on Saturday night.
Atkin’s halfpipe medal took the British tally up to five, equalling the number won in Pyeongchang, where her sister Izzy won bronze in the slopestyle.
But with three golds among them, there can be no doubt that this is Great Britain’s most successful Winter Olympics of all-time.
Atkin delivers on promise
Atkin’s first run was one of the biggest of the competition (Photo: AFP)Great Britain came into these Games with more world champions than ever before, but few with as much confidence of a medal as Atkin.
The 23-year-old, who was born in Massachusetts but has dual citizenship through her British father, won the halfpipe world title in Switzerland by just half a point – and that was without the presence of Gu.
Atkin had beaten her in qualifying though after the Chinese skier fell on her first run and raised hopes of a fourth British gold of the Games by taking the lead on Sunday morning.
Gu had fallen again, but then produced a brilliant second run to earn her sixth Olympic medal and third gold, worth 94 points that Atkin could never really equal.
The British-American skier did throw everything at it, improving by two points to move within touching distance of Li Fanghui, but could not overhaul the Chinese athlete for silver.
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