Why Team Gb's Medal Hopes Are Not Lost

Sometimes, those good margins activity successful Great Britain's favour. Twelve years agone astatine nan Sochi Games, snowboarder Jenny Jones won bronze - Team GB's first Olympic badge connected snowfall - successful nan slopestyle by conscionable 0.25 of a point.

"I could person very overmuch been successful fourth," Jones told BBC Sport.

"The woman who came fourth, she did a bigger instrumentality than me, but she dragged her hand. On nan day, I had done it cleaner. On immoderate different day, she mightiness person beaten me.

"There's tons much going connected pinch nan Olympics, mentally. It is that psychological element, it's a mindset.

"They are each truthful capable, and they tin do these things, but it is astir who has sewage that intelligence advantage connected nan day.

"We should not beryllium disappointed astatine each successful our athletes, we should beryllium celebrating really good they are doing connected a world stage. We person truthful overmuch much to look guardant to."

Britain's champion badge haul from a Winter Games is 5 - astatine Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 - but earlier nan Games, UK Sport said up to 8 medals could beryllium won.

While 8 now looks for illustration it could beryllium a stretch, a record-breaking Games is still connected nan cards, and Dame Katherine Grainger, chair of nan British Olympic Association, says "questions will beryllium asked" if that is not achieved - peculiarly fixed nan £25.5m UK Sport has ploughed into Olympic wintertime sports complete nan past 4 years.

"Because it's nationalist money, there's a work for each of america to make judge nan money that goes successful is paid back," she told BBC Sport.

"We want to spot awesome performances, inspirational performances, and that there's bully worth for money. I deliberation nan results will beryllium superb and it will warrant nan investment.

"We cognize nan imaginable is to attain a grounds number of medals, and if that imaginable is not achieved past we person a work crossed each of america to understand wherever that went wrong.

"That imaginable is very real. There rightly will beryllium questions if we do not execute that."

It is excessively early to person those conversations, because each is not lost.

Team GB has plentifulness of badge chances still to travel - and this is wherever we mightiness spot them.