Brits do well in Slopestyle Final
Brits do well in Slopestyle Final
Published : 08-Feb-2014 04:44
Men's Slopestyle Finals in SochiAmerican Sage Kotsenburg took the first gold of the Games ahead of Norway's Staale Sandbech and Canada's Mark McMorris.
Jamie 6th, Billy 10th
Nicholls was in silver medal position after landing a triple on his first run to score 85.50 but he made an error on his second run and fell to sixth.
But it was still Team GB's best ever snowboarding result and their best Olympic performance on snow in 46 years - Gina Hathorn claiming slalom fourth and Felicity Field downhill sixth at the 1968 Games in Grenoble.
With Jamie Nicholls progressing straight through to finals on Thursday, Billy Morgan competed this morning in the semi finals, qualifying first with 90.75 taking him through to the finals.
Finals saw some outstanding performances all round with Billy getting a best score of 39.75 placing him in 10th position.
Congratulations to both Billy and Jamie on making history by representing Great Britain competing in the first ever Snowboard Slopestyle Olympic Final.
Jamie Nicholls - photo courtesy of TeamGB
Tune in at 6.30am tomorrow to check out the Ladies Snowboard Slopestyle Semis with Aimee Fuller and Jenny Jones and 09.15 for Finals. First Olympic event for Cross Country tomorrow with the Skiathlon starting at 08.45 GMT.
For more details visit the Team GB website: http://www.teamgb.com/
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