Brett Wild would have quite happily left PyeongChang with one Paralympic Winter medal – to be departing with three is more than he could have imagined.

But for the Scottish skier, guide to visually impaired Millie Knight, it could have still been so much more from his first Winter Games.

The pair arrived in South Korea with little expectation, still feeling the effects of a heavy crash to Knight 12 months ago, both physically and emotionally.

Yet they defied even their own odds, two silvers coming their way from their first two days, including a downhill honour just 15 minutes into the Games.

A dip in form saw just one more bronze surface, in Sunday’s slalom, leaving the Royal Navy submariner with conflicting emotions come the final race.

"We had a gameplan, we wanted to go flat out and we did and we left nothing on the hill so I’m chuffed to bits with how Millie has skied this week, it’s amazing,” he said.

“We would have been lucky to leave with one medal and I would have been happy to leave with one medal so to leave with two silvers and a bronze is phenomenal.

“I think the week on the whole has been absolutely brilliant. It was a hard dip in the middle and it took a lot for the sport psychologist to get us back but we bounced back and proved that mental resilience one again.

“I’ll take a week out when I get back to recuperate but then I’ll be back in the gym. That’s the plan.”

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Knight and Wild needed just 15 minutes of the Games to pick up the first medal, skiing to downhill silver behind Henrietta Farkasova – the two repeating the trick in the super-G soon after.

But from there things didn’t go to plan, a super-combined fourth place a blessing compared to seventh in the giant slalom.

It meant a big effort was needed in the closing slalom, stopping the clock in a time of 1:53.39, more than a second behind gold medallist compatriots Fitzpatrick and Kehoe.

But bowing out with a medal was only a partial pleasure for Knight, Sochi 2014 flagbearer hen aged just 15, determined to hit the top spot of the podium in Beijing 2022.

“I’ll definitely be back again in four years, we’ve got to win that gold. It’s each step on the way but we’ll get back to training when we are back,” she said.

“I’m feeling pretty good at the moment. The season we have had has been really tough and coming away with three medals is absolutely wonderful.

“We were coming into these Games almost not expecting anything and thinking we would come out with nothing and so we’re delighted.

“Coming fourth in the super-combined was so tough but since then we worked so hard with our psychologist and we’ve had a lot of messages from back home that have spurred us on and changed our mindset.

“To be able to come back today and fight for our bronze has been brilliant.”

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