PHIL AGIUS

Weblog: Sports editor's view

Skeleton's coming home thanks to amiable Amy

IT'S COMING HOME, it's coming home, skellington (this is spelt correctly, like hampster) is coming home.

When I heard the jolly hockey sticks GBR fans singingthat little ditty in Vancouver in the early hours of this morning to celebrate amiable Amy Williams' gold, I admired their  spirit, but guessed that it wasn't really a British sport. Wrong!

In fact, the skellington (it soundsmuch less sinister like that than the  bones-but-no-flesh way of spelling it) was invented by similarly plucky British types in St Moritz. Who else would have be arsed to invent the head-first tea-tray event anyway?

It looks dangerous enough from the wide-angle TV pictures, and that was confirmed when those ingenious BBC folk sent a reporter down with an camera attached. Don't try it at home.

And now super slider Amy Williams has grabbed gold and is already 12-1 in places to be Sports Personality of the Year. Well, if Rooney gets injured, there may yet be a dearth of candidates.

Tousle-haired Williams (shouldn't she have her hair in a bob???) won gold despite the apparent disadvantage of not being half as porky as her podium rivals.

It seems a basic law of physics that a heavier object would travel down an icy tube faster than a lighter one, but this no doubt has to be balanced out with the ability to get the thing moving at the start by running and indeed the danger of getting stuck.

It seems her rivals were thinking along the same lines and decided the svelt Ms Williams must have had aerodynamic help from her helmet, which they claimed has a design that acted like a spoiler.

How cool is that? I really hope she did have a dodgy device on there, it would have been payback for those floaty body suits the swimmers have been using to defeat GBR's earlier golden girl Rebecca Adlington.

It appeared we had F1's diffuser-gate breaking out all over again and super spiffing BBC pair Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding looked like they would explode with indignation if Amy had lost it in the stewards' room.

"Medal hopes spoiled by a spoiler" cleverly claimed the Canadian press after their contender finished fourth.

"It's pretty much the same as everyone else's helmet," Williams said.

Well thatpretty much will probably be just about okay for everyone then...