New Zealanders Ruby Star Andrews and Sylvia Trotter have failed to qualify for the women’s freestyle skiing Big Air finals at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Trotter finished 21st in the 27 strong field, while Andrews was 24th. Only the top 12 qualified for Monday’s final at Livigno.<\/p>\n
Trotter’s best of her three runs was her first, when she logged a score of 83.00, but she was unable to follow that up posting scores of just 20.72 and 38.00 in her final two runs.<\/p>\n
Andrews had a tough day, completing just two of her runs with scores of 44.50 and 48.25.<\/p>\n
Defending gold medallist Eileen Gu of China, though, overcame a flubbed landing to make it into the finals.<\/p>\n
After a solid first jump, the 22-year-old Gu could not land cleanly the second time around. She skidded on her side and one of her skis snapped off, sending her down to 17th place.<\/p>\n
That put pressure on Gu to excel in her third jump, which she did. Instead of playing it safe, she chose a more complex trick and nailed it to temporarily move into first.<\/p>\n
Meghan Oldham of Canada eclipsed Gu and ended the night top of the leaderboard. Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland, the bronze medallist at Beijing 2022, was in third place.<\/p>\n
In big air, skiers launch themselves off a jump and perform as many flips and twists as they can before landing. Judges assess height, technique, originality and other factors.<\/p>\n
The combined tally of each skier’s two best jumps determined which 12 of the 27 competitors advanced to Monday’s final.<\/p>\n
Two Italians, Flora Tabanelli and Maria Gasslitter, made it through to compete for a medal in their home country.<\/p>\n
– Reuters with additional reporting by RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealanders Ruby Star Andrews and Sylvia Trotter have failed to qualify for the women’s freestyle skiing Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284585,"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-284584","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\/284584","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=284584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}