Welsh skiing starlet Menna Fitzpatrick claimed women’s VI super-combined silver at PyeongChang 2018 with guide Jennifer Kehoe in the early hours of this morning.
The duo had already won super-G bronze on Sunday and produced two brilliant runs to add a silver medal to their collection at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre .
The seventeen year old has a very simple mantra when the eyes of the world are on her and the nerves kick in, “In the start gate just before we go out, when the nerves start increasing, I think about butterflies that are drinking tea while doing yoga,” said Fitzpatrick after she clocked a combined time of 2:29.00.
“It came from three different techniques of calming you down,” added Kehoe.
“One is having butterflies fly around in your stomach, the next is the tea cup and thinking calm under pressure and the third is yogic breathing.”
The pair produced a super-G time of 1:31.49 in the day’s opening session to give them second place, while Millie Knight and Brett Wild occupied third and Kelly Gallagher and Gary Smith sat seventh – the position they would hold at the end of competition.
Menna and Jen will be hoping to make it a trio of medals as they compete in the Giant Slalom overnight, an event originally planned for Saturday night/Sunday morning but had to be moved to tonight due to the forecast of poor weather. The competition starts overnight at 00.30 UK Time.
Channel 4 will be showing extensive coverage of the Games and you can follow all the action here: https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/paralympics/schedule
