Key occasions
This is sweet, Svea Irving skipped the second run after a bang on the primary run and I believed she was out, as an alternative the American goes to present it a go. Unfortunately she calls it early after combating the touchdown on her second trick.
Rachael Karker is subsequent, however she falls coming off her leap. The Canadian’s 79.50 places her in fifth for now.
There’s no enchancment from Mischa Thomas, she finishes with a better of 77.75.
We’re into the third runs and Kate Gray get down her first full run. The American will get a 66.5. Liu Yishan is subsequent and she or he improves her rating to 71.75 however that’s not troubling the rostrum.
Gu leads after run two!
After getting an enormous 5.4m on the primary leap she takes a fall midway down. Such a disgrace she was trying superb for an improved rating. More to come back on run three, you hope.
So after the second runs the medal positions are:
Eileen Gu (CH) 94
Li Fanghui (CH) 91.50
Zoe Atkin (GB) 90.50
Li Fanghui seems to take a little bit of a slip coming off her first trick and likewise misses a seize however once more the judges overlook these execution errors due to the technichality on present. The Chinese athlete goes second with a 91.50.
Indra Brown’s second run is best than her first, however solely by ten factors. Paying for an absence of airtime.
Gu makes it down this time and though there’s a missed seize in there it’s nonetheless packed stuffed with hits. It’s not received the peak of Zeo Atkin’s run, however finishes with back-to-back alley-oops, so how will they rating it? Wow 94. Gu goes into gold medal place. We have a ultimate.
Zhang Kexin is subsequent and is placing collectively one thing very spectacular earlier than she takes an enormous fall. Eileen Gu is subsequent.
Sadly, Svea Irving’s fall in run one has put her out of the remainder of the competitors.
Rachael Karker of Canada this time manages to land her run and the BBC commentary lads are suprised as she’s given a 79.50 to go forward of Thomas into fourth.
Amy Fraser, the Canadian sitting second, places down an analogous run to the primary and doesn’t enhance her rating.
Mischa Thomas looks like a personality. The New Zealander doesn’t clock it’s her flip to go till the digital camera switches on to her, earlier than she drops her telephone midway down the run. A digital camera man grabs it for her because the judges determine she didn’t enhance on her first spherical 77.75.
Kate Gray falls on second run and doesn’t enhance her rating, then Liu Yishan places down one other clear run, however not one that’s massively higher than her first.
Zoe Atkin leads after the primary run!
That is what the physician ordered! Huge first trick from Atkin will get 4.5m of air and her common of two.7m is increased than the peaks achieved by anybody else in the ultimate! Do the judges find it irresistible? They do! It’s 90.5, simply the very best rating thus far.
So after the primary runs the medal positions are:
Zoe Atkin (GB) 90.50
Amy Frasher (CAN) 85
Li Fanggui (CH) 81.25
We misplaced Canada’s Cassie Sharpe to concussion earlier than the ultimate so we transfer subsequent to Li Fanghui of China. It’s an excellent one, lots of swap, which apparently the judges love. That’s an 81.25 and ok for second. Only Amy Fraser has put down something of top of the range thus far, however what can Zoe Atkin do?
Australia’s Indra Brown begins effectively however loses momentum, it’s a clear run however not the most important. It’s solely a 55.4, however that’s ok for fourth with the quantity of falls we’ve seen thus far.
Wow! Eileen Gu goes off subsequent and she or he pulls up after first trick. Pressure on for the Chinese athlete as she has to attain together with her second and third runs.
Zhang Kexin rides extra of the pipe backwards than forwards earlier than falling.
That’s higher from Amy Fraser. The Canadian is clear and technically actually robust, she misses a few grabs however that’s the very best thus far, 85.
We have extra falls as Canada’s Rachael Karker after which Team USA’s Svea Irving each hit the deck. This ultimate was postponed from final evening as a result of heavy snow so these circumstances are usually not simple.
Liu Yishan, the primary of the 4 Chinese athletes, is clear however not the very best scoring at 70. Mischa Thomas is subsequent for New Zealand, the BBC commentary boys prefer it (when do they not?), and it’s ok for a 77.75.
It’s not her greatest, with a discover the final trick for a 44.55. She has two extra runs to enhance that rating.
First to place down a run is America’s Kate Gray…
We’re heading over to Livigno shortly for the ladies’s halfpipe. Team GB’s Zoe Atkin certified first however there may be loads of competitors, not least from China’s Eileen Gu.
Some large information popping out of the 50km girls’s cross-country snowboarding, with Frida Karlsson pulling out. The Swede was the gold meal favorite having received the skiathlon and the 10km intervals, in addition to a silver in 4×7.5km relay.
The Americans have a catastrophe run there. They’ve misplaced greater than a second, largely because of an enormous faucet and fishtail popping out of the beginning ramp. They’ll be tumbling down the rankings. I’ll have these standings in full later forward of the fourth and ultimate runs.
Brad Hall’s Team GB are subsequent. They get off fast with 4.78 begin however with perfection required this can be a little brief. There are a few errors in turns one and two, with pace not selecting up additional down the course.
The time of 54.66secs is significantly better than their second run (55.04) however Lochner’s staff is additional off in the gap, 1.23secs forward. Team GB are solely 0.31 seconds behind third-placed Ammour’s third-place German crew however that’s so much to ask in one run.
The Swiss are much less clear with their run, however they put up their second-quickest time (54.69) which sees them lose floor on the staff above them.
The Swiss are down in 54.55, faster than Ammour’s sled in the third run however not fast sufficient to maneuver up into the medal positions. Neither can the Italians, who get down in a tidy vogue however an absence of pace out of the gate sees them put up a 54.57 and stay a few hundredths off bronze.
Next up… extra Germans. Adam Ammour is the pilot for this one and that’s (comparatively) much less spectacular than his rivals. That run opens the door for the bronze medal spot, they’re 0.96 behind Lochner’s crew.
Lochner’s staff begin 0.6secs quicker than Lochner’s staff however he’s shedding time additional down the monitor and the 54.30secs ending time means the time benefit for the leaders grows to 0.48secs.
We’re straight into it with the four-man bobsleigh. The leaders, the Johannes Lochner’s German crew are down in 54.25, not his greatest however not far off. Now what can Francesco Friedrich do with Germany’s second-place staff?
Preamble
This is the top, sadly. Day 16 is right here and with it, the closing ceremony. But that’s later and for now we nonetheless have a ultimate few occasions to tick off, with medals to be handed out.
One of these medals could even go the best way of Team GB’s Zoe Atkin, in the delayed girls’s ski halfpipe ultimate. Before that we’ve got the ultimate runs in the lads’s four-man bobsleigh, the place – unsurprisingly – Germany lead and likewise sit in silver medal place. Brad Hall’s British crew are seventh.
Later on we’ve got what the second installment of what’s argualy essentially the most gruelling occasion in the entire Games, the 50km cross-country ski mass begin. After Johannes Høsflot Klæbo received his sixth gold of the Games in the lads’s occasion yesterday, immediately it’s the flip of the ladies to push themselves uphill on skis for greater than two hours (sounds enjoyable).
Another high-profile occasion concludes immediately with a showstopper of a ultimate in the lads’s ice-hockey because the USA tackle Canada in a re-run of the feisty Four Nations finale from final 12 months.
Canada beat the USA for bronze in the ladies’s curling yesterday and the gold medal match begins simply after noon, with Switzlerland going through Sweden.
I believe that’s the whole lot coated off, lets get into it?
