BRITISH duo Mica Moore and Mica McNeill will go into the final two runs of the women’s bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics tomorrow just 0.16 seconds off a medal.

Brakewoman Moore, from Newport, and driver McNeill sit equal sixth with Canada’s Alysia Rissling and Heather Moyse following both of today’s opening slides in Pyeongchang.

Having started their campaign with an impressive time of 50.77secs, the Brits went slightly slower in run two, clocking 50.95secs.

However, they maintained their position from run one and are in with a real shout of a podium finish should things go well tomorrow.

“It’s both of our first Olympics and we’ve done so well to get here,” said Moore. “We just want to enjoy it and hopefully that will result in a good position.

“It was so much fun and I really, really enjoyed it. It was amazing to be out there with Mica – she is such a great pilot and I just loved it.”

McNeill added: "It is very exciting. It's a brand new track and this is day six on it for us so we haven't had a lot of time here. It’s a fun track and it'’ going well so far.

“We’re looking forward to carrying that into tomorrow. We stand by that we are powered by the people.

“We'd like to thank everybody who has donated to us. It has been incredible and overwhelming support.”

Both slides today followed a similar pattern – a relatively sluggish start proceeded by a strong finish – as McNeill navigated the 16 turns of the Olympic Sliding Centre track.

The first was the more impressive, McNeill guiding her and Moore to a time that was just 0.25secs adrift of early pacesetters Elana Meyers Taylor and US teammate Lauren Gibbs.

While only 0.05secs ahead of them was the Canadian sled driven by Kallie Humphries, the defending Olympic champion who also struck gold in 2010.

Setting off 17th of the 20 sleds, McNeill and Moore, who got to the Games with the help of more than £40,000 raised by the public after their finding was withdrawn, opened with a push of 5.52secs, the 13th fastest overall.

And there were a few early mistakes from McNeill on a course that the previous day had seen a dead heat for gold in the men's two-man bob.

However, slowly but surely McNeill found her rhythm, and the duo were clearly delighted with their time when they reached the bottom of the course.

Confidence was high going into the second run, though the start was fractionally slower than earlier.

The run wasn’t quite as clean as the previous one but none of the medal contenders were able to go quicker than they did in the first run.

Run three begins at 11.40am tomorrow and is followed by the fourth and final slide.