Mia Brookes went down fighting as she narrowly missed out on Great Britain’s first medal of the Milan and Cortina Winter Olympics in the women’s snowboard Big Air at Livigno Snow Park.
Starting her last of three runs in third place, Brookes went for broke and came agonisingly close to becoming the first female athlete to land a backside 1620 in competition.
But Brookes slightly over-rotated and was penalised for her landing, meaning she slipped a position behind winner Kokomo Murase of Japan, New Zealander Zio Sadowski Synnott and Seungeun Yu of South Korea.
It marked another near-miss on a day that had promised so much for Team GB, with Kirsty Muir earlier also taking fourth place in the women’s ski slopestyle final.
With the cumulative score of the two best of three runs counting, Brookes had gone into her final attempt in third place behind Yu of South Korea and Japan’s Murase.
Her brave attempt might well have been enough to lift her onto the top of the podium, but instead she is left to refocus on her favourite event, the snowboard slopestyle, later next week.
