That's it from us - and for the Winter Olympics for another four years!

Thank you for joining us over the past couple of weeks for what has truly been a Games to remember for Team GB.

Five medals, three golds - an historic fortnight and we can only hope there will be more to come in France in 2030...

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

If someone had told you before competition began that Team GB would win three gold medals at the Winter Olympics, would you have believed it?

Perhaps not - but it happened.

On Sunday night, flagbearers Matt Weston and Charlotte Bankes led Team GB into the closing ceremony in Verona as the curtains were drawn on a historic Games for the nation.

In winning five medals, GB equalled the team's record best from both 2014 and 2018.

But it has been the nation's most successful Winter Olympics since the moment snowboarders Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the second of those golds in the mixed team snowboard cross.

Never before had Great Britain won more than one gold medal at a Winter Olympics. That fact has now been buried deep in the snow.

That's almost it from us but we've just got time for one last look at the Milan-Cortina medal table...

Great Britain's three gold medals is the most they have ever won at a Winter Olympics and, with a silver and bronze added in, saw them finish 15th.

Norway led the way with 18 golds medals and 41 in total...

Team GB are back home and soon the post-Games reviews will begin, by both the British Olympic Association and the individual sports themselves.

Over the four-year cycle leading into the Milan-Cortina Games, UK Sport ploughed £25.5m into winter sports on the Olympic programme, up from £22.2m for the Beijing 2022 cycle.

The funding for the next cycle, leading up to the 2030 Games, will be confirmed and announced in the summer, though the individual sports have already received a provisional figure for planning purposes.

But while an important metric, funding isn't just based on the number of medals won, or a reward for it. UK Sport also looks at future potential, as well as the impact and resonance on the watching British public.

UK Sport's director of performance Kate Baker told BBC Sport that Team GB's athletes had gone "above and beyond" in delivering value for money.

Asked how that success is now built on, she said: "The reality is we've been thinking about it for the past four years. Already the work is in place to build for that next Games and indeed the one after.

"We've got some real talent coming through, there is no shortage of British talent, and we know we can show that we can mix it with the best on the world stage when it matters.

"The next four years is about supporting that talent that's coming through and also making sure that we do everything we can so that when they get here on finals day, they are absolutely at their best."

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A final word from Matt Weston on a change of pace - from skeleton to wedding planning: "My objective has changed from how fast I can go down a track to what flowers we are having at the wedding now."

And stag-do planning?: "They are keeping it very secret. I am looking at him [brother Ed] over there and he is saying that a few of my friends have been busy organising it, but they are keeping very quiet about what it is and who is involved. To be honest, I am more worried about the stag than competing at the Games. I don't know what they have got in store for me but I think it will be quite an experience."

Highlight of 2026?: "I am making the most of saying that this [winning two Olympic gold medals] is the highlight at the moment, but I think that after the wedding i am going to have to change that answer."

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale went into the mixed team snowboard cross smarting from disappointments in their individual events and with a point to prove.

Bankes, 30, a former individual world champion and two-time overall World Cup winner, was left crestfallen when she exited the women's event in the quarter-finals, just as she did four years ago in Beijing, despite being widely tipped for a medal.

Similarly, Nightingale, 24, was left wanting much more from himself after exiting the men's competition in the round of 16.

Yet both found another level to claim a first British Olympic medal on snow, to add to the world title the pair claimed in this event in 2023.

"It's immense. I think we push each other well and for me, I know that Charlotte Bankes is behind me and she's such an incredible rider that it kind of loosens me up," said Bolton-based Nightingale.

"I know that when I'm loose, I can ride really well and I think we've shown. The singles were tough but now there are tears of joy."

For Hemel Hempstead-born Bankes, her first Olympic medal came at her fourth Winter Games and less than a year after she broke her collarbone - an injury that put her participation at Milan-Cortina in serious doubt.

"For me, it's a relief, to get that medal and show our strength," she Bankes. "That's what's been frustrating me, not being able to show what we're capable of.

"We both didn't perform perfectly in the individual. For me, it was a really bad performance, and to use that to come back and give it everything we've got... it takes that weight off my shoulders."

"These Games have been amazing, and a history-making Games," Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead told BBC Sport.

"This Games has really proven that we are capable, that we have so much potential, and we're growing. We're a growing winter nation, which is really exciting.

"With the French Alps [Winter Olympics] in four years time, this is a catalyst to those Games."

Matt Graveling
Sports reporter

For almost two decades UK Sport has held in-person talent ID sessions for aspiring athletes, designed to test their physical performance and match them up with the sport that would suit them best.

It is exactly how skeleton gold medallists Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker discovered they were well suited to sliding head first down an ice slope at 80mph.

But here's the thing - anybody can apply online to attend a session.

The analysis at a Talent ID day includes a series of tests measuring power, stamina, speed, and agility.

Anybody aged 17 or over can apply online, and athletes who drop out of one sport in the early stages of their career are often invited along to see if something else may work for them.

Examiners also assess each athlete's character, scoring their ability to regulate emotions, control their performance and under pressure, and understand and respond to feedback.

Though applications are open to anybody, eventual selection for a sport still requires a high level of natural ability.

More from curling silver medallist Bruce Mouat on the increase in interest in the sport: "It's pretty exciting, the amount of people who are here has surprised me, that's special.

"As a curler, I'm a bit biased, but I love that everyone is enjoying the curling and I hope that they can find somewhere to take part.

"[The reception at Gatwick] is pretty special. Inspiring the next generation is something I remember back in 2012 [following the London Olympics] for the legacy of the [summer] Games, so for us to now have the opportunity to hopefully inspire these kids is what we are aiming to do."

Chemmy Alcott
Four-time Olympic alpine ski racer on BBC Two

The impact of these Games has been monumental from Team GB.

The day after Matt Weston won his first gold, 3,500 got in touch with British Skeleton to get involved with their programme. That is massive.

All of our success is incredible, but the lasting legacy for me is these athletes who have dared to dream and risk with all of the world watching.

It didn't always pay off, but we saw athletes go there. The fact they wear their heart on their sleeve, and learning from failure is something that we really get in these Olympics.

More from Zoe Atkin on whether she had any regrets after qualifying in first place for the women's freeski halfpipe final and leading after the first run, but eventually finishing third: "There were a lot of emotions after that third run.

"I mean, I was so stoked to land it - I landed a trick I had never done before in a comp run - so I was just so stoked with that.

"I guess maybe I kind of thought that would bump my score up a little bit, up into second or maybe even first place, but there is only so much I could control. I did the skiing and on the day it is up to the judges.

"To me, I am just really stoked to walk away with a medal. This has been my dream for so long, since watching my sister [Izzy Atkin] win hers in 2018, so I am just super stoked to walk away with bronze."

13 Feb: Gold - Seven days into the Winter Olympics and Team GB finally have their first podium finish - and what a finish. Matt Weston obliterates the field to claim a first ever gold medal for Britain in the men's skeleton. We have lift off.

15 Feb: Gold - Charlotte Bankes suffered early disappointment in the women's snowboard cross, knocked out in the quarter-finals, but she shrugs that off with a thrilling victory in the mixed team event alongside partner Huw Nightingale - Team GB's first ever Winter Olympic title on snow

15 Feb: Gold - The records continue to tumble on a 'Super Saturday' for Team GB as Weston teams up with Tabby Stoecker to win the mixed team skeleton - becoming the first British athlete to win more than one gold at the same Winter Games

21 Feb: Silver - There is no golden finish for Team GB in the men's curling final, but there is a silver-lining for Bruce Mouat, team-mates Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillanm Bobby Lammie and alternate Kyle Waddell after they fall to a narrow defeat against Canada in a nail-biting gold-medal match

22 Feb: Bronze - And, better late than never, Zoe Atkin claims a first British medal in the halfpipe on the final day of the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, finishing third in the women's freeski event

Lizzy Yarnold
Two-time Olympic skeleton champion on BBC Radio 5 Live

I think yesterday watching Zoe [Atkin who won bronze in the women's ski halfpipe] and the men's curling on Saturday with their silver medal, it has been a really exciting games.

There was tension in the first week, are any medals going to come? What is going to happen? They had quite a big target to achieve, five to eight medals I think.

There is that sense that when one medal comes, the energy shifts. You are representing your team, Team GB. You are not representing British skiing or curling, you come together as a slightly different team and that actually really helps with the energy.

It looked like Team GB's quest for a record medal tally at a Winter Olympics may never catch fire after a string of early disappointments and near misses.

Here's a reminder of how close Britain's athletes came to doubling their medal tally with FIVE fourth-place finishes:

09 Feb: Women's freeski slopestyle-It wasn't supposed to start like this - Kirsty Muir was expected to challenge for a place on the top step of the podium but is edged out of a medal by just 0.41 points

09 Feb: Women's snowboard big air - Muir's heartache is followed by MiaBrooke's grandstand finish in a stunning final - she needs to go large in her final jump and comes oh so close to landing a backside 1620 trick for the first time in competition...fine margins.

10 Feb:Mixed team curling - Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds almost kicked off the Games in style after topping the table in qualifying - but the day after missing out on a guaranteed medal with a surprise defeat to Sweden in the semi-finals, they go down 5-3 to hosts Italy in the bronze-medal match

15 Feb: Mixed team skeleton - Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit narrowly miss out on joining team-mates Weston & Stoecker on the podium - by an agonising 0.01secs

16 Feb: Women's freeski big air - Muir, more than most, will return home from Italy with a feeling of what could have been as she also misses out on big air bronze by just 3.5 points

Tabby Stoeker, who won gold alongside Matt Weston in the team skeleton, told BBC Sport: "I don't think there are words for it [her achievement]. I don't think I have fully taken stock of what has happened. Obviously I am so proud of myself, so proud of our team and the way the nation has been behind us to support us has been incredible.

"I think we have a lot of confidence in our ability, our team and the hard work we put in up to that point and obviously with Matt a few days before winning gold in the individual I knew I had a strong partner.

"You are always trying to focus on what you need to do in the moment and stay present. Also try and enjoy the Olympics at the same time, it being my first Games that was also really important."

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The father of British Olympic medallist Zoe Atkin says he is "absolutely delighted" by his daughter's medal-winning performance at the Winter Games in Italy.

Zoe Atkin took the bronze in the halfpipe in Livigno on Sunday, equalling the performance of her sister Izzy eight years earlier.

Although Atkin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, she holds British citizenship, as her father, Mike, is from Solihull, and she represents Team GB at the Games.

He said his daughters soon "got into an argument over whose Olympic medal was heavier".

According to Team GB, Zoe and Izzy were the first British siblings to win Winter Olympics medals, external in over a century.

Mike said the family had joked about checking back on their notes to see if they could share tips on raising medal winners: "Ribena and Marmite - they certainly had their share of those growing up!"

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Women's halfpipe bronze medallist Zoe Atkin says she is "super stoked" about her Olympic experience: "It's been a crazy, long four years. So much hard work has gone into this, and so much support from my family, community and everything.

"It just means so much to do it for me and to do it for them. It's crazy and so surreal. I am having trouble processing it, honestly."

On having to wait until the final day for the women's freeski halfpipe final: "Definitely pros and cons, for sure. It was so inspiring to watch the other athletes. To watch them succeed in their events was so cool.

"I love watching the Olympics, I get so emotional watching other athletes achieve their dreams, but obviously it was also very tough with all of the hoopla around the Olympics, to be waiting for so long to compete.

"It was just about keeping my mental state calm and making sure I was ready for when it was my time to go. So I am really stoked that I was able to put it down after all of that stress and nervousness and walk away with a medal."

Hammy McMillan Jr, silver medallist with GB's curling team, told BBC Sport: "I was fantastic, it was an amazing time. Obviously we set our standards pretty high and we were shy about saying we wanted that gold. We came very, very close to getting that gold in that final on Saturday night.

"It still hurts, definitely. It's going to hurt for a while. The first silver in Beijing took four years to get over. This one might do the same. We are immensely proud of what we have achieved. We are two-time Olympic silver medallists, not many people can call themselves that. We are very lucky."