Gus Kenworthy earned a sixth-place finish in the men’s freeski halfpipe as Team GB entered the final weekend of Milano Cortina 2026.
Kenworthy’s score of 84.75 left him just outside the medals on his return to action, having come of out of retirement last year.
Elsewhere, Ellia Smeding rounded off her speed skating campaign with a 23rd-place finish in the women’s 1500m while Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson got their two-woman bobsleigh campaign underway.
Kenworthy just misses out
Fourth is supposed to be the hardest place to finish, but for Gus Kenworthy sixth is just as agonising.
His second run of 84.75 for a time looked enough to be in conversation for a medal before he went even bigger on his third run but could not stick his penultimate landing.
"It's hard to know how to feel, sixth feels so close, so I'm pretty bummed,” he said.
"The first run was a little but off and on the second run, I saw people weren't landing and every now and then you have a competition like that. I went a bit conservative to get a safe run down but then gave myself only one shot to go for it. In hindsight I should have probably given myself two tries for a full pull.
"I feel like there is not a difference of being sixth or 12th. Anyway, I am still happy to land a run."
Liam Richards made his Olympic debut in the morning qualifying event, where he finished 17th.
That was not quite enough for the final but the teenager was thrilled to take the big stage.
“It's what we live for, to be honest," he said.
"The adrenaline that comes out of landing the runs and landing new tricks, it's the best feeling in the world.
"Obviously, we do risk ourselves, but we signed up for that, and I think what comes out of it, the adrenaline, is the best thing ever, and it makes it all worth it."
Smeding signs off
Ellia Smeding finished her Olympic campaign with a 23rd-place finish in the women’s 1500m.
Smeding is more often seen over 1000m but was determined to put her best skate forward over the longer distance.
"It was hard going into it not really knowing what I could do because I haven’t really done a 1500m in a while. I wanted to just get off the ice with no regrets,” she said.
“I went as hard as I could, that’s something to be proud of."
Nicoll and Nelson determined to improve
Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson are intent on climbing the rankings when they return for the second day of two-woman bobsleigh action.
Nicoll and Nelson clipped the wall at the start of their first run and found themselves 21st after the first two.
But Nicoll was upbeat that the best was yet to come on runs three and four.
"We came in really prepared," she said.
"We had some fantastic training runs, we knew we were capable of some top ten finishes. Obviously, they didn't come through, but that doesn't mean we can’t improve our overall finish position tomorrow.
"I'm still learning - I know it's crazy, because we're at the Olympics - but I'm only a few years into this journey of mine and I'm learning every day. I can't think of a better place to be doing that than the Olympic Games."
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