Great Britain will “lick their wounds” after a disappointing Winter Olympics, and are available again “roaring and preventing” for Milan-Cortina in 2026, UK Sport CEO Sally Munday mentioned.
Team GB received simply two medals at Beijing 2022, falling in need of their goal of three to seven.
The women’s curlers beat Japan to win gold on the ultimate day of the Games after the men won silver on Saturday.
Munday mentioned she was “thrilled” for the curlers after a “disappointing” Games.
The medal haul was in need of the 5 received on the earlier two Games however there have been quite a lot of close to misses as nicely, with three top-six finishes.
Asked why Britain’s two medals got here from one sport and so they weren’t extra aggressive throughout extra disciplines, Munday instructed BBC Sport it was “most likely too quickly to leap to conclusions”.
“What is basically vital is that we evaluate correctly,” she mentioned.
“We ask all the sports activities to do their evaluations and we will have a look at all of the contributing elements that go into making medal-winning performances. We actually get underneath the pores and skin of why it’s that some that we thought would possibly obtain success right here did not.
“Was it merely an error on the day, which might occur within the sports activities that now we have right here?
“Or are there issues which might be deeper than that?
“I feel you most likely liken us to a wounded lion. We’ll lick our wounds, we’ll work out what must be completely different and we will come again preventing and roaring for Milan-Cortina.”
More than £22m was spent on funding the sports at Beijing 2022, with some receiving bigger contributions than others.
£9.53m was spent on ski and snowboarding, and £6.42m was awarded to skeleton, with neither producing medals.
Meanwhile, Brad Hall’s four-man bobsleigh team felt their sixth-place finish was “like a medal” after having to self fund their Olympic dream.
“Clearly some huge cash has gone into a few of the sports activities which have come again with nothing and other people, I suppose, will need solutions as to why they have not delivered the medals that you simply thought they’d,” added Munday.
“The sports activities will do their personal evaluations and I feel that is vital to get to the guts of the questions that will should be answered.
“We will then sit down with every sport as a part of our annual evaluate course of and get underneath the pores and skin of what it’s that they’ve learnt.”
Speaking in regards to the sixth-place end within the males’s bobsleigh, Munday added: “A large congratulations to Brad and the staff to attain what they’ve, and the best way they went about their willpower to self fund.
“It is basically spectacular and so big congratulations to them for what they’ve achieved right here. I am unable to look again and say what I might and could not change up to now.
“What we are able to do is make it possible for we evaluate all the sports activities.”
However, Munday mentioned success must be measured in “larger phrases” than simply the return of medals.
She added: “We’re disenchanted with the place we’re and there isn’t any shying away from that, however I’ve heard good tales over the past couple of weeks of ice rinks and snow domes being packed to the rafters and other people determined to get within the door.
“The medal moments make us really feel improbable, however the definition of success for us is wider than merely the medals.”
‘We must take every sport in another way’
Munday’s feedback of disappointment have been echoed by British Olympic Association chief govt Andy Anson, who acknowledged some troublesome choices lay forward.
Anson additionally mentioned extra assist ought to be provided to occasions with larger groups moderately than glorious people.
“We do not wish to conceal away from the truth that there will be sports activities and athletes going residence who will be disenchanted with the best way issues have gone out right here,” Anson instructed BBC Sport.
“It would have been good to have achieved some medals on the snow and within the skeleton and bobsleigh, however that didn’t occur for no matter motive.”
Speaking in regards to the disappointment round some sports activities, Anson added: “We haven’t gone into it intimately, however there’s completely different causes in several sports activities.
“I feel now we have to take every sport in another way. So skeleton not successful a medal is completely different to not successful a medal in snowboarding or snowboarding.
“In snowboarding and snowboarding there’s a lot jeopardy, and after we solely have one athlete in every occasion, it’s actually troublesome to win medals persistently.
“With UK Sport, we will work with the nationwide governing our bodies to ensure the technique about actually getting behind these groups the place there’s energy in depth, versus into particular person athletes who simply want supporting as a result of they’re people who’re good.
“They’re on the circuit doing very, very nicely and so they want supporting, however perhaps that’s completely different, and supporting a complete staff and a complete sport is what now we have all received to get our heads round.”
Sport must act over ‘horrific’ Valieva case
The Games have been overshadowed by Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian figure skater who failed a drugs test.
Valieva helped her staff win Winter Olympic gold in Beijing, after producing a optimistic check for the banned substance trimetazidine in December.
The optimistic consequence was solely reported the day after the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) received staff gold, and Anson mentioned the entire story was a “tragedy”.
“It’s terrible {that a} 15-year-old lady is testing optimistic for banned substances,” he mentioned. “There is not any upside to that for anybody in any respect and it is a horrific story.
“We spoke to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) right away and we pushed them to say that the entire entourage is correctly investigated as a result of we have to know whether it is indicative of a extra systematic challenge that is occurring nonetheless in Russia.
“If it’s then the sanctions have not labored and we have to revisit that.
“But for me, as the daddy of a daughter, seeing a 15-year-old lady having unlawful substances in her is horrendous. So now we have to do one thing about it. The entire sporting world must do one thing about it as a result of it is not acceptable.”
