Winter Olympics: Billy Morgan wins Great Britain's record fifth medal in Pyeongchang
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Winter Olympics: Billy Morgan wins Great Britain's record fifth medal in Pyeongchang
Billy Morgan won bronze within the public toilet snowboarding massive air to secure nice GB their highest honour tally in Olympiad history.
The honour for Morgan, 28, is Team GB's fifth in Pyeongchang, taking them past the four medals won in 1924 and 2014.
It follows a skeleton gold for Lizzy Yarnold still as bronze medals for Dom Parsons, Laura Deas and Izzy Atkin.
Canada's Sebastien Toutant won gold with a score of 174.25 whereas United States' Kyle raincoat took silver.
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Morgan fell on his 1st jump however responded with eighty two.50 on run 2 and eighty five.50 on his final run - once landing a front-side fourteen triple with mute and tail-grab, that he had ne'er succeeded in doing in competition before.
He becomes the primary British man to win a Winter Olympic honour on snow and solely the third Briton once Jenny Jones and Izzy Atkin.
"I cannot believe it. I did not suppose i might build the theater and that i was simply stoked to create the ultimate," he told BBC Sport.
"I simply wished to place a show down and that i was disturbed once the primary jump that I wasn't attending to land something however managed to land my next 2 jumps and walked away with a honour."
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Morgan, from Southampton, finished simply zero.75 off silver and his honour was confirmed once Canadian favorite scoop Parrot crashed on his final jump.
Morgan had been scuffling with a knee injury this season and Matt McCormick had been dropped at the athletic competition as back-up had he not been able to vie in slopestyle and massive air.
"I'm twenty eight years recent and i have maxed the limit of what my body are often afraid regarding," he said.
"It's the simplest feeling, the pay-off once you are doing one thing you're afraid regarding and you land on your feet, that is why we tend to do that.
"For that last trick I pushed all the worry to 1 facet, I was like, although I fully wreck myself it does not matter, i am simply attending to go and be intimate. "
The bronze conjointly sees nice GB reach United Kingdom Sport's pre-Games minimum target of 5 medals.
It is Team GB's second snowboarding Olympiad honour, following bronze for Jones in Sochi in 2014.
UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Percy Grainger aforesaid she was "delighted" country team had reached the honour target.
"I hope that everybody look reception are galvanized by what they need seen over the past few weeks," she extra.
The 'veteran' medalist at twenty eight
Billy Morgan
Morgan finished fourth at the 2013 World Championships
Morgan was the oldest snowboarder competitive within the final with about one in every of the remainder of the sphere aged twenty five or beneath.
He was AN jock as a teen and didn't take up snowboarding till the age of fourteen - at a dry incline in Southampton - whereas his 1st full winter on snow came once he was seventeen, the age at that fellow massive air challenger Red Gerard won gold in slopestyle earlier in these Games.
Morgan was the primary snowboarder to perform a triple backside rodeo trick, involving 3 mid-air rotations, and to land a backside one,800 quadruple cork - four flips and 5 full rotations - however his best major result was a bronze at the 2014 European X Games.
He finished tenth at the Olympiad in Sochi however had his right knee reconstructed 2 years later and struggled with a left knee injury last year that hampered his coaching within the run-up to Pyeongchang.
Analysis
BBC Sport snowboard commentator impotency Vivien Leigh
In exactly constant means Jenny Jones worked thus exhausting ANd was able to crown a formidable career with the glory of an Olympic honour, Billy Morgan has done constant.
He's pioneered numerous tricks however has struggled for that core acceptance from the game. he is return here and landed 2 breathless tricks to win a palm. He has defied the percentages.