YANQING, China : The Yanqing National Sliding Centre is in a suburban district in Beijing, but Germany's sliders turned the"Flying Snow Dragon" into a Bavarian fortress, yielding ten golds and firing their country to second in the Winter Olympics medal table.
Skeleton was Germany's relative weakness prior to the Games, but Christopher Grotheer and Hannah Neise changed all that, taking the country's first ever golds in the event. Only in the Olympics' first ever monobob did Germany miss out on gold, where Canadian-born Kaillie Humphries led the pack to pick up her first medal in U.S. colours.
The Games saw the sun set on Britain's skeleton fortunes following the retirement of all-time great Lizzy Yarnold, with Laura Deas finishing 19th, far from the bronze she mustered in Pyeongchang four years before.
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