Congratulations to Amy Williams

Amy Williams, a 27-year-old from Cambridge, won an Olympic Gold medal today. I tried to stay up and watch it but it was 3am time in Spain so I missed out. Pity.

Amy, according to the London Times dominated the event from the start. In her four runs on the Whistler ice track, she managed to break the course record and then break it again. By her fourth run, the gold was hers to lose.

Amy’s gold gives Britain’s its ninth gold medal-winner in Winter Olympics history. The last were the women’s curling team in Salt Lake City and before that came Torvill and Dean. Williams is the first individual gold medal-winner since Robin Cousins in Lake Placid in 1980.