{"id":272679,"date":"2026-02-07T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272679\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:23:10","slug":"winter-olympics-live-updates-kiwis-lyon-farrell-rocco-jamieson-dane-menzie-in-big-air-snowboad-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272679\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics live updates: Kiwis Lyon Farrell, Rocco Jamieson, Dane Menzie in Big Air snowboad final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand will have three athletes in the men&#8217;s Big Air snowboard final, as it chases its first medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon Farrell, Rocco Jamieson and Dane Menzie all qualified inside the top 12 on Thursday (NZT), with Farrell the highest-placed in seventh. He edged teammate Jamieson (eighth), with Menzies sneaking through as the 11th qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Hiroto Ogiwara was top qualifier, followed by Italian Ian Matteoli and Japan&#8217;s Kira Kimura.<\/p>\n<p>Join us at 7.30am Saturday for our live coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTMYFX_AFP__20260205__96BY3ZM__v5__HighRes__SnowboardingOly2026MilanoCortina_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"New Zealand's Lyon Farrell  competes in the snowboard men's big air qualification at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLyon Farrell qualifies seventh for the Winter Olympics big air snowboard final.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand will have three athletes in the men&#8217;s Big Air snowboard final, as it chases its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-272679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}