Queenstown skier Alice Robinson missed out on the medals in the Giant Slalom at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Robinson\u00a0finished eighth in a very tight Giant Slalom competition, missing out on the podium by just 0.13 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 U.S. 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
Snowboarders top qualifying<\/p>\n
Dane Menzies and Zoi Sadowski-Synnot have topped their respective snowboarding slopestyle qualification.<\/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
Harrington into final<\/p>\n
W\u0101naka freeskier Luca Harrington has qualified for the final of the big air this morning.<\/p>\n
Harrington finished fifth after three rounds of qualifying, with the top 12 from the 29 entrants progressing through to Wednesday’s final.<\/p>\n
The 2025 big air world champion was in 12th place after the first run with a score of 84.25 after completing a right double cork 1440 and back with a 1260 with safety grab.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old followed that up with a switch right triple cork 1800 with a two-handed grab in his second run to score 92.00 and move up to fifth overall.<\/p>\n
He then finished with a right-side triple cork 1980 safety grab in his third run to score 87.75.<\/p>\n
His combined two best runs scored 179.75 while American Mac Forehand finished top with 183.00.<\/p>\n
“Felt really good, came in with a plan and executed the plan,” Harrington told Sky Sports afterwards.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been really working hard on that first trick I put down and it didn’t get rewarded the way I wanted it to. It’s been one of the hardest tricks I’ve ever worked through so that was a bit of a shame to see.”<\/p>\n
Harrington admitted his bronze in the slopestyle last week did affect him.<\/p>\n
“It was hard to mentally get back into the swing of things and focus up to work my hardest in big air, but by the third night of training I was feeling really good again.<\/p>\n
“No matter how this goes I’m just so honoured to be here and hopefully put down a good show in finals as well.”<\/p>\n
Fellow New Zealanders Ben Barclay finished 19th and Lucas Ball 24th in qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queenstown skier Alice Robinson missed out on the medals in the Giant Slalom at the Winter Olympics. Robinson\u00a0finished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-287190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287190","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=287190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}