Snowboarder finishes fourth after going for broke
Curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds lose semi-final
As Team GB’s Mia Brookes stood at the top of a 150ft‑high ramp before her final jump of the big air competition, she had the pounding heavy metal of Pantera blasting her ears, and the smell of an Olympic medal in her nostrils.
To grab it, though, the snowboarding sensation knew she would have to land a trick she had never attempted before on snow – and one so dangerous that she feared it would put her in hospital.
Brookes didn’t flinch. She bombed down the ramp – part Evel Knievel, part Simone Biles – flew off it, and then twisted her body through four and a half rotations. The trick? A backside 1620 – one that had been completed only once in history.
