2014 Watch: Lizzie
Yarnold
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Yarnold is an Olympian who announced
herself on the world stage with first place finishes at the Skeleton World Cup
in two stages of the 2011-2012 season.
Yarnold has been touted as a long-term replacement for the
retired Olympic Champion Amy Williams and the young Briton lived up to her
billing, winning a Bronze medal at the World Championships in 2012.
Williams, who was the first British gold medal winner in an
individual event at the winter Olympics for 30 years, is a hard act to follow
but Yarnold has finished an impressive 4th overall in her maiden
World Cup season.
Confidence is surely no issue for the starlet who proclaims
herself to be “GB #1 women’s skele athlete” on Twitter but she has dominated
her opposition at youth level, with a 2012 Junior World Champion accolade to
her name.
With the 2014 Winter Olympics just over the horizon Lizzie
has her work cut out if she wants to reach the pinnacle of her profession.
She’s definitely a talented individual and since wrote her dissertation on
“mental toughness” she should be well equipped to handle the stress of
competing on the largest event of them all.
Regardless, come 2014, there will be a new name on the
nation’s lips. That of its new darling, the impressive Elizabeth Yarnold.
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