Four years after a disastrous Olympic showing in Beijing, British skeleton is back fighting for gold at the Milan-Cortina Games. Matt Weston, a two-time world champion, leads a squad that has transformed its fortunes following a 15th-place finish that ended Britain's streak of Winter Olympics medals since 2002.

In the aftermath, the team took a major gamble by hiring Martins Dukurs, the greatest slider in history, as their new coach. Dukurs, who retired after Beijing with six world titles and over 60 World Cup victories, brought invaluable experience to a program that had lost confidence and faced reduced UK Sport funding. The British squad, which lacks a proper ice track and trains on a push track at the University of Bath, has thrived despite these limitations.

This season, Weston and Marcus Wyatt dominated the World Cup circuit, becoming the first nation to win every men's event. With the mixed team event making its Olympic debut and new helmets controversially banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the British team heads into competition with renewed confidence. As Weston prepares for his second Olympics, his sights are firmly set on gold: "That's the only colour I want to come home with."