Jackie Narracott has become the first Australian to win a sliding medal at a Winter Olympics.
Jackie Narracott, the bolter from Brisbane, won Olympic silver on Saturday in a performance that stunned the world of skeleton racing and put a dent in Europe’s century-long dominance of the sport.
“It’s indescribable, unbelievable – everything that I have dreamt of,” Narracott told Seven after coming off the track in Yanqing. “This is beyond our wildest dreams,” said her father, Rodger Narracott. “It is unbelievable. It was so lovely. She always had the potential to put down four consecutive runs and tonight she did it.”Narracott, formerly a 100- and 200-metre runner, turned her dreams of an Olympic sprint around an athletics track into one that ran almost two kilometres down the Yanqing mountains 100 kilometres west of Beijing.Pounding down the mountain at 126km/h, Narracott was within 0.62 seconds of a gold medal.
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