The youngest member of the British team at the Winter Olympics, Kirsty Muir, qualified for her second consecutive final in Beijing.
The 17-year-old finished fifth on her Games debut in Big Air and will also compete in the slopestyle final after qualifying in sixth place.
With just 12 places available in the final, Muir qualified comfortably with a best run score of 70.11 points and will be joined in the final shoot-out by GB teammate Katie Summerhayes, who recorded a 66.56 to qualify 10th of the finalists.
Muir said afterwards: “I feel like I definitely had a few mistakes in the first run and not as good on my second but I’m hoping to clear everything up.”
Katie Ormerod, who had missed the last Olympics after a nasty heel injury on the eve of her competition, could not make the Big Air final after only qualifying in 18th place.
Brad Hall has his work cut out to force his way onto the podium in the men’s two-man bobsleigh after the opening two runs. Hall lies just 0.42seconds outside a medal but in 11th place, while Germany’s Francesco Friedrich dominated as expected.
Bruce Mouat continued his good showing in the men’s team curling as Britain edged out Switzerland 6-5 to give them a fifth win in six matches and cement their place in second in the group stage. The match went down to the final stone, Mouat keeping his cool to edge the victory. But it was a third defeat in six outings on the rink for Eve Muirhead as they lost 7-3 to Canada.
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson finished 10th in the ice dance as France duo Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron lived up to their pre-event billing of favourites.
Fear, who with Gibson has been tipped as a future medallist on the world stage, said: “I feel such confidence leaving this experience. We completed two really good performances at the Olympics. Knowing we’ve done well is the biggest thing, we didn’t shy away from the experience.”
Elsewhere, former Canadian bobsleigh athlete Kallie Humphries won monobob gold having switched allegiance to the United States just two months prior to the Games.
Humphries had left the Canada set-up over al alleged abusive coaching environment, which is undergoing a second investigation after the initial investigation was ruled insufficient by the Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada last year.
