ALL JENNIFER Kehoe wanted two days ago was to finish a race, but now the alpine skier is one gold medal away from completing the Paralympic set.

The British athlete and visually impaired skier Menna Fitzpatrick added super-combined silver to their super-G bronze, a transformation on the highest level in PyeongChang.

The pair had started the Games as the very first competitors but the dream turned into a nightmare with an early crash, with confidence inevitably knocked.

But Fitzpatrick and Kehoe have ten World Cup medals this season alone and duly showed why in the day’s super-G and slalom combination, beaten only by Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkasova.

Taking ParalympicsGB’s medal tally to four, their own personal haul stands at one silver and one bronze – and one golden exclusion they have time to correct.

“We’ve worked a lifetime for this, you dream of having a gold medal and it does go to your mind but we’re not thinking about that right now, we’re thinking about the next race on Wednesday,” said Kehoe.

“We’ve got to go back, recover, get our minds focused on the giant slalom and make sure we go out there and give it our best.

“It feels surreal. After the disappointment of day one we had to completely reset ourselves, dust down – metaphorically and physically – so we thought we had quite an uphill battle.

“We did manage to turn it round in the super-G and we took a massive amount of confidence from that, we’ve delivered performances we’re really proud of and hopefully we can build on that.

“Our big thing is going out there and enjoying it and in this race we can say we’ve done that.”

Kehoe and Fitzpatrick – who has just five per cent vision – now have two more chances to add more silverware to their luggage, starting with Wednesday’s rearranged giant slalom.

That’s an event they already have pedigree in, becoming world bronze medallists just 12 months ago in Tarvisio, Italy.

Then comes the slalom to round off the week at their first Paralympic Games, an experience that has already been a rollercoaster ride to say the least.

But, in just a short space of time, Kehoe, 34. believes she and the teenager who relies on her for communication and direction have developed a strong mindset from which they can express themselves.

“We were confident, we went through a really good routine to get our frame of mind in the right place and we treated that last slalom as if it was a training run,” she said.

“It was about putting in a good performance and not worrying about anyone else, that takes the pressure off and meant that we were able to focus on just skiing well.

“Menna’s been trying some ways to keep calm with the nerves – she managed to try them all at the same time and made herself laugh in the start gate.

“We love racing with a smile and we’re looking forward to doing that for the rest.”

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