Matt Weston is a medal prospect at the Winter Olympics and he has spoken about sharing a bed with his closest rival Marcus Wyatt out in Italy
Team GB Winter Olympics medal prospect Matt Weston has disclosed he frequently ends up sharing a bed with team-mate and fiercest competitor Marcus Wyatt.
The pair are set to battle it out in the Skeleton discipline at Milano Cortina, Italy. Weston enters the competition as the frontrunner, having clinched two world championships over the past three years. He dominated the latest World Cup series by securing victory in five out of seven races, whilst Wyatt claimed the remaining two wins and bagged bronze overall.
Despite their on-track rivalry, Weston has opened up about their off-piste relationship during the games to the Daily Mail. “We end up sharing a bed quite a lot,” he revealed. “The last time was in Sigulda (in Latvia) just before Christmas.
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“We don’t have an abundance of money, so it’s often a twin bedroom for us and in Europe that usually means two singles pushed together and difficult to separate. We’re pretty used to each other by now, we know each other’s like routines – he has his side of the bed, I have mine, and there’s this whole arrangement.
“We’re like an old married couple sometimes, to be honest, but we’ve kind of got this unwritten agreement that the racing stays on the track. “We get on great. Really, we do. If Marcus beats me, I’ll be the first one to congratulate him and vice versa.”
Team GB boasts an impressive skeleton pedigree, with athletes hurtling headfirst down icy tracks at breakneck speeds of 90mph. The nation has secured medals in seven of the previous eight Games.
But Beijing 2022 proved a nightmare scenario; racing on newly-unveiled sleds before the Games, Weston and Wyatt could only manage 15th and 16th positions respectively. It’s a disappointment Weston is determined to rectify this time round.
“It took a pretty big emotional toll, the Olympics being such a disappointment,” he said. “It was tough to swallow, but then I changed my mentality. I just thought, ‘Right, enough wallowing – 2026, let’s go put this thing right.'”.
He added: “I’ve not thought of anything apart from the Olympic gold, to be honest. The silver hasn’t even come into my brain.
“Everything I’ve been working for the past four years is gold. All the world champs, European champs, Crystal Globes, they are all stepping stones up to this point.”
However, Weston and Wyatt have suffered a setback after learning their planned new helmets for the Games have been prohibited. The squad has lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with a decision anticipated on Friday.