WATCH out world, the British bobsleigh girls are gunning for a medal come Beijing 2022.

Just moments after Mica McNeill and her team-mate Mica Moore crossed the line in eighth to record Great Britain's best-ever Olympic women's bobsleigh result, they were already turning their attentions towards four years time.

This is not them getting carried away in the moment. If the turbulent events of the last six months has taught them anything, it is to keep their feet on the ground.

Instead the result was justification to the British public who pledged £40,000 to keep their PyeongChang dream alive, after their national governing body left them in the lurch following an administrative error.

At the halfway stage of the Olympic competition, the Brits were even within 0.16 second of a fairytale medal.

But a driving error on the third run by McNeill saw the prospect of a podium evaporate but they were still able to cling on to a top-eight finish – bettering the previous Olympic best of ninth achieved by Nicola Minichiello and Jackie Davies at Turin 2006 Games.

“I'm buzzing. We've got four more years to be back and contending for medals,” said McNeill, from Consett.

“We love the sport, it's close to my heart. I want to do it for another four years and I want to represent Great Britain.

“We want four stress-free seasons and then we want to go to Beijing 2022 and absolutely smash it.

“My limited experience on this track showed a little bit. I've had less runs than anyone here. I put two great opening runs down and we were up there in the medal mix.

“But I had a mistake on the third run but I've got four years to work on consistency and improve myself as a driver and also to work together as a team, get faster and stronger.”

At 24, McNeill was among the youngest pilots in the field, with silver and bronze being claimed by 33-year-old Elana Meyers Taylor and 32-year-old Kaillie Humphries. Even champion Mariama Jamanka of Germany is 27.

McNeill and Moore, 25, could conceivably have another two Olympic cycles in them if they are kept together, ample chance to get to grips with different tracks around the world, the demands of racing, and the pressures of continually competing at the very highest level.

In January 2017 they claimed the World Junior Championship gold together while last November – despite the stress of dealing with their cut in funding – they finished fifth at the World Cup in Whistler, the best British finish for more than eight years.

The two are clearly a talented combination but after a turbulent six months of trials and tribulations, followed by the high of PyeongChang, McNeill was hopeful of smoother times ahead.

“It's been a long, hard stressful season,” she added “I'm looking forward to have a sit down with the coaches and the performance director and talk about going forward and the future,

“Obviously we're so grateful to be powered by the people and the people got us here. It could have been added stress as we were trying to prove ourselves. But it gives you that extra push to prove someone wrong.

"That's absolutely incredible but we don't want to rely on them.”

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