By David Williams and Emily Davies and Jonathan McEvoy and Kieran Corcoran Olympic star Lizzy Yarnold was today enjoying the sweet taste of success - as she bit down on her gold medal after a presentation ceremony at the Winter Olympics. Basking in her victory in the skeleton competition, Miss Yarnold, 25, waved to the crowd and held her first-place medal - Britain's first in the 2014 games at Sochi - with evident pride. The former grammar school pupil had dominated the competition in Sochi yesterday, which saw her hurtle down an ice track at 80mph on a ‘tray’ nicknamed Mervyn.
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Lizzy Yarnold beat U.S. and Russian competitors yesterday to take gold
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Family and friends wept at the side of the track as she sealed her victory
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It is Britain's second consecutive gold in the skeleton after Amy Williams won at the 2010 Vancouver Games
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After the last of her four runs yesterday she admitted she had been so confident of winning that she had even learned how to say ‘I’m champion’ in @placeholder.