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Britain won its first Winter Olympics gold medal for 30 years on Friday. Victory in the women’s skeleton. Amy Williams, 27, the track record for the second time to take gold. Williams is Britain’s first woman gold since 1952. She told reporters she could not her win: "Never in a years did I think I'd come here and win gold," she said. She : "I don't think it will sink in for weeks and weeks. It's to do this for my country. I had nothing to here and I just went for it. I every minute.”

The skeleton is one of the and most dangerous sports in the world. Skeleton sliders lie down on a sled and go headfirst down a ice track. The skeleton slider has no and no way to . Vancouver is only the Winter Olympics to the skeleton. The first was the 1928 St. Moritz Games. The event made a in Salt Lake City in 2002. Very few countries have tracks for to practice on. Britain has no skeleton track and Amy Williams had to practice on .