Team GB slide into Winter Olympic history with two golds in one day

Great Britain has made history (again) at the Winter Olympics, as Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker won gold in the mixed team skeleton event on Sunday.

This is the first time two Winter Olympic titles have been won by Great Britain in one day, coming just after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the snowboard cross mixed team event earlier on Super Sunday.

Weston, who is 28, said it was "crazy" to be a two-time Olympic champion and "amazing" to celebrate alongside Stoecker.

It is also the first time Great Britain have won three gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.

A second British team, Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit, narrowly missed out on a skeleton medal by just 0.01 seconds, while two German teams won silver and bronze, respectively. The mixed event made its debut at Milan-Cortina this year.

Weston - who is known as "the ice man" - became the first Briton to win two gold medals at a Winter Olympics after claiming an individual gold on Saturday.

This is also the first time Great Britain has won three gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.

Before Weston, no British man had won an Olympic skeleton gold medal before. He is now the most decorated man in British Winter Olympics history.

The women's skeleton team has won a medal at every Winter Olympic Games since 2002.

Skeleton is considered the world's first sliding sport.

Athletes run and push a sled along the ice before lying face down on it, using their body to steer it down the track going speeds of up to 80mph.

Despite having no ice tracks in the UK to train on, skeleton is one of Team GB's most successful winter sports.