Guildford ski cross star Ollie Davies vowed to come back stronger at the next Olympics after a bitterly disappointing Team GB debut in Beijing.

The 24-year-old came into Olympic year with high hopes having made the big final at the 2021 World Championships, the first Brit to do so, finishing fourth.

Davies couldn't deliver on big ambitions at the Games and struggled to find speed in windy, cold conditions on the Secret Garden course.

After a long delay when parts of the course structure were blown day by wind, Davies finished 31st in a field of 32 in the seeding run.

Davies covered the course in a time of 1:14.84 that left him with a tough draw at the quarter-final stage.

The Surrey skier's early exit was confirmed after finishing fourth in his first heat, making a crucial slip early and proving unable to catch up with Russian Olympic Committee's Igor Omelin and Canadian Kevin Drury.

"It's obviously pretty raw. I'm gutted," said Davies, who is one of over 1,000 athletes able to train full-time, access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering technology, science and medical support thanks to vital National Lottery funding.

"I made a mistake at the start and was playing catch-up from then onwards.

"It's not particularly easy to pass on this track and I was too far off the back from one mistake at the start.

"The start was fine, I just tried to come too low on the second feature and pulled the top of it. I was off the back at the start and had to fight back to the pack first of all.

"It obviously took a lot from there. There was maybe a possibility at the second corner but I just got compressed and lost the juice."

Davies learned to ski on holidays to France, where his family moved when he was eight.

He started life as an alpine skier but soon found success in ski cross, crowned Britain's first world junior champion in 2019.

By qualifying and competing in Beijing, Davies became the first man to represent Great Britain at the Olympics in his discipline.

The Surrey star insisted he'll work hard to put things right with the 2026 Olympics in Milan-Cortina on the mind.

"There's no particular reason for it," said Davies. "It's ski cross, anything can happen. It's a crazy sport.

"I want to come back and I want to do better. It's the same thing, more work, more grind, racing just as much and coming back stronger.

"Right now it doesn't feel like the fire's lit because I'm still processing what happened.

"Hopefully I can reflect and come back better. It's been a good experience other than the actual racing."

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