2026 Winter Olympics: Team GB misses out on bobsled medal, finishing seventh

It was a tough outing for the British snowboarders, who struggled in the pairs event and finished 12th overall.

Brickman Taylor Lawrence missed the third and fourth heats as a precaution after suffering a calf injury all season, and Hall said their full focus will be on the four-man event.

The four years since the Beijing Olympics have been successful and have put an Olympic medal firmly on the radar, but seventh place represents a setback for Hall, who finished sixth in 2022.

However, the team did not enjoy their best season in the lead-up to the Games, winning just one World Cup medal and struggling with injuries and a lack of positive momentum.

“That’s the way things happen sometimes. You build momentum for the whole four years and then all of a sudden, it starts going the other way, and it’s not that we got the timing wrong, it’s just that we were unfortunate,” Hall said.

The 35-year-old is the most successful British men’s pilot in World Cup history with 30 medals in the race, and after the second round, he said he didn’t know where things had gone wrong.

A promising match left them in bronze medal position, but Hall was emotional after they bled time in the second and left themselves with too much to do on the final day of competition on Sunday.

Their times in the third and fourth heats were sixth and 10th fastest respectively, and the shake of the head from Hall after the third round made clear his displeasure with the way these games had gone.

An Olympic medal is the only one missing from Hall’s illustrious collection – he led his team to their first World Championships medal since 1939 when they took silver in 2023 after their first European title in Altenburg earlier that year.

“It didn’t go the way we wanted, but we have a lot to be proud of over the last four years. It’s bad to end a four-year Olympic period with a result like this,” he said.