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16th February 2018
08:21am GMT

Parsons merking the skelly, where athletes slide head-first down an ice tube at 80mph (Credit: Matthias Hangst)[/caption]
After finishing 10th in Sochi 2014, this was his second Olympics and a firm outsider - offered 100/1 odds of a win.
It is the result of the 30-year-old PhD student's career, ranked 12th in the world before the games.
There was no chance of securing gold, which had been tied down since the first run of South Korean Yun Sungbin, but Parsons finished only two hundredths of a second behind Nikita Tregubov, of the Olympic Athletes from Russia, who took silver.
The medal was the first won by one of Team GB's men in the skeleton since 1948. Our women have been far more successful with two golds and a silver since 2006.
Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas are expected to return from Pyeongchang with a few more around their necks too.
Parsons win will provide some relief to the largest British team ever sent to a Winter Games, who have endured a tough first week.
Snowboarder Katie Ormerod suffered a serious injury and Elise Christie crashed out of her 500m short-track speed skating final, reducing her to tears.