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<\/p>\nQueenstown skier Alice Robinson has missed out on the medals in the Giant Slalom at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Robinson finished eighth in a very tight competition, missing out on the podium by just 0.18 seconds.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Federica Brignone completed a golden double on home snow adding the giant slalom title to the Super-G won last week, while US Alpine ski great Mikaela Shiffrin again missed out on a medal, finishing 11th.<\/p>\n
Robinson made a couple of minor mistakes on her first run and was sitting in 10th position. She managed to improve a couple of places on her second run.<\/p>\n
“I was pretty disappointed,” Robinson said, describing the moment when she first crossed the line to see that she’d missed out on a medal spot.<\/p>\n
“I came down, and I saw I was in fourth (and that point) and only 12 hundredths behind. It was hard, but then watching the rest of the race play out, it actually ended up a bit better than I thought.”<\/p>\n
Robinson finished eighth equal in the Super G last week.<\/p>\n
“There have been so many emotions for me in the past month. I really wasn’t sure what to expect today. I think GS has been a bit of a question mark for me the past two months. From having such a good start to the season and then I was really struggling a lot, especially in the last race,” Robinson said.<\/p>\n
“So, today I really didn’t know what was going to happen. I felt a lot better on my skis but I didn’t really feel like I was going to be in the running for a medal. Then to have it be so close and let it slip away, it was quite sad but I’m proud at the same time.”<\/p>\n
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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott during her second run in the big air (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
Snowboarders top qualifying<\/p>\n
Dane Menzies and Zoi Sadowski-Synnot have topped their respective snowboarding slopestyle qualifications.<\/p>\n
With bad weather forecast the competition was brought forward a day with Menzies putting in a strong first run which included a switch backside 1260 into frontside 1440, finishing with a 1660.<\/p>\n
His score of 86.06 put him in the top spot, and there he stayed.<\/p>\n
“It felt pretty good for sure, I definitely was not expecting that,” said Menzies. “I didn’t expect the judges to score that high, but they’re liking my selection of rails, so that’s good.”<\/p>\n
In the women’s qualifying rounds, defending Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott made an immediate statement, posting an opening score of 81.73 to move into second place.<\/p>\n
She went big on run two, adding a 1260 to her jump line and lifting her score to 88.08 to take over first place.<\/p>\n
“It feels really good to land,” said Sadowski-Synnott. “There was a lot of pressure going into today, but I’m just grateful that we got good weather so that all the girls could show their best snowboarding.”<\/p>\n
Lyon Farrell and Rocco Jamieson finished 15th and 18th respectively in the men’s slopestyle qualifying, while Lucia Georgalli was 20th in the women’s.<\/p>\n
The women’s slopestyle final is scheduled for 1am Wednesday morning (NZT) with the men’s on Thursday at 12:30am (NZT).<\/p>\n