Kristan Bromley"s hopes of adding a second medal to Britain"s skeleton haul ended in disappointment as Canada"s Jon Montgomery snatched gold on the final run of the men"s event.
Minutes after Amy Williams landed gold in the women"s skeleton, Bromley, 37, had seen his medal chances effectively disappear after he slipped down the rankings following the third men"s heat at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
Bromley"s fourth and final run could not advance his cause any further and he finished in sixth place.
No medal: Great Britain"s Kristan Bromley crosses the line sixth place...
...but Canada"s Jon Montgomery celebrated gold
"It"s always emotional after a race, especially after a big one and those emotions are really high at the moment," a downcast Bromley said.
"I"m really disappointed that I couldn"t have made that podium but I couldn"t live with the starts of Tretyakov and Dukurs and the home runs of Jon, that"s just the way it was.
"I tried my best, they were all making mistakes out there and I"m really pleased with my last run. I went really high at curve 16 and maybe lost a 10th of a second there but I don"t think it would have changed the result."
Bromley said he felt no added pressure on him having finished fifth at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
"I probably felt less than the last one in the sense that going into Turin I was being hyped as the gold-medal favourite, certainly from a GB perspective.
"This one, Shelley (Rudman, his partner and women"s skeleton rider) especially was being put under a lot of pressure.
"But the field"s strong and it"s a really strong track. I was sixth at this one, fifth at the last one and we had three Canadians to contend with."
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