Winter Olympics 2010: gold medallist Amy Williams aims to win more titles

By Simon Briggs Published: 9:28PM GMT 02 March 2010

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Disappointingly, her sled that she famously declared Arthur was not since the own chair and had to transport with the rest of the baggage.

Attractive, effusive and flushed with a unequivocally British eccentricity, Williams is certain to be hotly pursued by sponsors in the entrance days and weeks. As she admitted: "I right away have utterly a couple of meetings and interviews." But she betrothed that all the pushing would not confuse her from her goal: to win some-more general titles.

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"The courtesy is not something I"m used to but I"ll have to get gentle with it," she said. "I"m starting to get the cling to of articulate and responding questions but it"s not healthy to me. I don"t know what"s going to occur subsequent we"ll have to wait for and see what"s out there and who"s interested.

"The bullion award has been a life-changing experience in that I"m right away vocalization to the media. But, ultimately, we"re athletes we sight tough and work hard. We go to the gym each day, slip down slopes and transport the world. That will regularly be inside me. The alternative things is a large reward but I"m not going to change. I"ll be the same chairman precision tough to reach the subsequent level."

Proudly wearing her medal, she pronounced it was the things that dreams are done of, adding: "It is positively amazing. I cannot unequivocally hold it is genuine but this is creation it genuine by the second."

Winning a bullion award for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics is a small similar to on foot on the moon. The cost of fasten one of the world"s majority disdainful clubs is that you finish up revelation the same story over and over again. So for Williams"s sake, it contingency be hoped that she goes on to explain serve successes even if nothing of them is expected to compare her new thing impulse last week.

Even after Williams"s effort, Britain can still explain usually 9 bullion medals in the event"s 86-year history. And after the in all unsatisfactory display in Vancouver, there is each possibility that UK Sport could cut funding.

However Andy Hunt, the Team GB cook de mission, has laid open any plans to repel supports and branded the stream turn of financing "unacceptable".

"We intentionally invested in ensuring that this was about the growth of the competition and formulating a height for the future," he said. "The stream turn of appropriation we perceived is unsuitable when compared to what the summer sports get.

"The winter sports appropriation is such a small member of the altogether sports appropriation usually 1.5 per cent. That change has to be redressed."

Williams, for her part, feels that Team GB"s efforts have been foul decried. "Winter competition athletes are used to the actuality that summer ones will regularly take majority of the attention," she said, "but we"re progressively removing there. Everyone wants some-more income so that they turn some-more successful and move medals home.

"We were a clever a group in Vancouver. Everyone got personal bests. For majority of us it was the initial time at an Olympics. Other sports don"t have the plain programme that structure of the body has and that we"ve worked over the years to get. With some-more support, a couple of of these immature athletes will have improved experience forward of the subsequent one."