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Jamaica’s Anthony Watson struggles in opening rounds of Men’s Skeleton at the Winter Olympics

by February 15th, 2018

Jamaica’s Anthony Watson produced  times  of   53.13 and 54.04 seconds  in  the  opening  rounds  of  the  Men’s  skeleton  competition today  at  the  winter  Olympics  in  Pyeonchang.

The   first  athlete to represent Jamaica in Skeleton at the Winter  Olympic  Games is  now  in 29th  position  overall  following  his  slides  in  heat  one  and  heat  two  where  he  had his  fastest  ever  starts  at  4.91  seconds.

The  American  born  Jamaican  competitor  with  an  overall  time  of  1-minute-47.17 seconds  is  6.82  seconds  behind  the  overall  leader Yun Sungbin of  South  Korea  who  has  a  cumulative  time  of  1-minute-40.35 seconds.

Watson  will  wrap  up  his   participation  tomorrow  when  he  contests  heats  3  and  4.

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