Team Gb Skeleton Helmet Appeal Dismissed By Cas

The British skeleton squad - among Team GB's champion hopes for medals astatine nan Winter Olympics - will not beryllium capable to deterioration their caller helmets because they do not comply pinch nan sport's rules astir shape.

The British squad had appealed to nan Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to overturn nan determination by nan sport's governing assemblage - nan International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF).

But Cas opportunity nan helmet is simply a departure from nan modular helmet style and has intelligibly been designed to specifically heighten aerodynamic capacity because nan backmost of nan helmet protrudes.

The British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) stressed that nan helmet was designed pinch information successful mind and to comply pinch caller information regulations owed to beryllium introduced by nan IBSF astatine nan commencement of nan 2026-27 season.

Those rules are not successful spot astatine nan Olympics but British skeleton person fundamentally tried to get up of nan curve by designing and utilizing their caller helmet successful Italy.

A image seen by BBC Sport shows that nan helmet is pointed astatine nan backmost - akin successful quality to a way cycling helmet.

Natalie Dunman, executive capacity head astatine nan BBSA, said: "Based connected nan spot of nan lawsuit we put forward, people we are disappointed successful [the] decision.

"However, this does not impact our last preparations and nor has nan sermon affected nan athletes' attraction aliases optimism going into nan Games.

"Our athletes person been winning medals each season, and passim nan Olympic cycle, successful their existent helmets and we stay successful a beardown position to proceed that trend."

When asked astir nan helmet anterior to nan verdict, Team GB's skeleton racers said they had nary penchant connected which helmet they utilized astatine nan Olympics.

They get astatine nan Games arsenic dense favourites to triumph medals pinch world champion and wide World Cup victor Matt Weston starring nan complaint for golden while compatriot Marcus Wyatt is besides fancied to spell well.

The British squad wore nan helmets astatine a training convention past week successful Switzerland pinch nan IBSF ruling them retired connected 29 January earlier nan BBSA appealed against nan prohibition connected Thursday.

Official skeleton training successful Cortina originates connected Monday pinch nan men's arena opening connected 12 February, while nan women's starts connected 13 February and nan squad arena is connected 15 February.