CORTINA — It is a high-class problem to have. Matt Weston shows me the chips and scratches on the two gold medals he has only had for a week.
“If I had one, it would be fine, but because I’ve got two they’re banging together,” Weston tells The i Paper, acknowledging it’s an issue that he is more than happy to have.
“So I like it actually, they’re unique, and they’ve got a little bit of character to them.”
Weston made two bits of British Winter Olympic history on the Cortina skeleton track last week, initially becoming the first man since Christopher Dean to win a winter gold and then, by winning the mixed relay, the first Team GB athlete ever to win multiple medals at the same Games.
GOLD! Matt Weston has done it! He is the first British man to be Olympic skeleton champion pic.twitter.com/l7Pj7Z5hEN
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 13, 2026The 28-year-old had dominated the World Cup circuit and was regarded as the team’s best chance of gold, but he still had to deliver.
And while he never showed any signs of the pressure, as soon as he crossed the line in the individual event, he unexpectedly burst into tears under his helmet.
‘Jurgen Klopp recognised me’
The enormity of the achievement still has not really sunk in, and having not yet been home since winning, he cannot really know how much his life will change, but has already got a hint of it while still in Italy.
“I went back to watch the bobsleigh and I saw Jurgen Klopp at the bottom of the track,” he adds.
“I caught eyes with him and waved, as you do, becuase he’s a massive star. And then he said ‘Oh, you’ve got two medals’. I thought ‘How the hell do you know that?!’ That was insane.
”I didn’t tell him, but I’m more of a rugby man! A lot of things like that have happened, people following me on Instagram and I’m like ‘how do you even know who I am?’. It’s been pretty surreal to meet people like that.”
‘I’m too broken for Strictly’
Weston celebrates winning the skeleton mixed team event with Tabitha Stoecker (Photo: Getty)With new-found celebrity status, he is already getting offers left, right and centre that he could not have dreamed of even two weeks ago, although he might not be in good enough shape for Strictly Come Dancing.
“[I’d rather do] TV shows where I get to do something rather than sit down and then have a chat, something like Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins would be so cool,” Weston says.
”I know my team-mate Tabby [Stoecker, with whom he won mixed relay gold] is obsessed with Strictly so I’m hoping that she gets the call up for that.
“I’m not sure whether my hips have got the movement in them anymore, and with my shoulders, I don’t think I’ll be doing any big lifts, but anything like that would be absolutely surreal.
“The fact that my name is being considered is definitely kind of mind-blowing to me. Maybe after my operation, when they’ve put me back together!”
‘Even putting my coat on really hurts’
Weston had booked in post-Games shoulder surgery long before winning gold.
It is in fact a minor miracle that he picked up the medals he did, given the state of his right shoulder, an old rugby injury that was aggravated by when he used to power-lift, and now the wear and tear of skeleton training has taken its toll.
“I’m still having to take painkillers even post-race because even putting my coat on really hurts,” he says.
“Every training, every race, my shoulder is taped up so it doesn’t really move that much. I’ve got problems in the joint, tears in the cartilage, arthritis… I’ve got a lot going on in there that I need to sort out.”
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It is not just his shoulder either.
“Four weeks ago, I tore the labrum in my hip in a crash. I had a 12cm tear in my quad in pre-season,” Weston adds.
“I’m so fortunate I’ve got this team around me of physios, doctors, strength and conditioning guys that keep me in the best physical condition possible and maximise the training that I can do.
“We’ve been very restricted in what we can do, though.”
Imagine how quick he could have been fully fit.
Matt Weston was speaking at Adidas House in Cortina
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