Marcus Wyatt insists retirement plans are on hold after an Olympic campaign that didn't hit the heights he wanted.

Honiton star Wyatt, 30, had high hopes for his Games debut after winning silver on the super-fast track at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre in last October's test event.

Team GB have won skeleton medal at every Games the sport has been involved, seven podium places in the last five years, including three golds.

But Wyatt finished 16th, one place behind team-mate Matt Weston, while 2018 bronze medallist Laura Deas and rookie Brogan Crowley were well off the pace in the women's competition.

“It has been a really tough year for me from the get go, I’ve really struggled this year," he admitted.

“I came out here and it was a little bit similar but I’m really proud of how I came out here to get my two best runs. I’m proud of how it went but ultimately where I’m sat is not what I came here aiming for.

“We will go home, we will review like we would anyway and I don’t doubt we will bounce back stronger.”

Four years ago, Dom Parsons won bronze in PyeongChang, despite being ranked outside the world's top ten and Wyatt hoped he could follow his lead. However, Parsons won his medal at his second Games, giving Wyatt hope for Milano Cortina in four years’ time.

“I hadn’t planned to retire," he insisted. "I don’t like leaving like this, this is not where I wanted to be. Maybe there’s a little bit more fire in the belly because I know I can come back and do better so four years’ time hopefully, that’s the objective.

“There are other sports like the luge, downhill skiers - those are the guys that are really nuts. We don’t think that we are that crazy, but I’m sure we are crazy enough to know we must be a little bit."

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