It has been a tough Games for GB’s bobsledders, who struggled in the two-man event and finished 12th overall.
Brakeman Taylor Lawrence sat out heats three and four as a precaution having suffered with a calf injury all season, and Hall said their full focus would be on the four-man event.
The four years since the Beijing Games have yielded success and that put an Olympic medal firmly on the radar but seventh place is a setback for Hall, who finished sixth in 2022.
Hall, the most successful British men’s pilot in World Cup history with 30 race medals, said after heat two that he did not know where things had gone wrong.
A promising heat one left them in bronze medal position, but Hall was emotional after they bled time in the second and left themselves with too much to do on Sunday’s final day of competition.
Their times in heat three and four were the sixth and 10th quickest respectively, and a shake of the head from Hall after run three illustrated his disgruntlement at how these Games have gone.
An Olympic medal is the only one missing from Hall’s illustrious collection – he guided his team to a first world championship medal since 1939 when they took silver in 2023 after a maiden European title in Altenberg earlier that year.
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