Britain's three entrants in the Men's Olympic Slopestyle competition have failed to progress to the final after finishing outside the qualifying positions in their heats on Friday evening at the Phoenix Snow Park in PyeongChang, Korea (Saturday morning in the UK), the first snowsports competitions of the 2018 Games.
Billy Morgan who made the finals at Sochi in 2014 posted 56.40 on his first run, which left him 12 points off sixth place and a spot in the final. He finished tenth in his heat, the same result as he achieved in final in Sochi.
"I'm pretty gutted. I had a really strong practice and I went in feeling good and chilled. On the second run I had so much headwind, there was just nothing I could do about it. I barely made it over the jump. It's just a bad roll of the dice I guess," he said afterwards, continuing , "Hopefully we'll be able to turn around some of the luck we've had today. I think we can all take it forward in the big air."
Jamie Nicholls finished eighth in heat one with a best score of 71.56 from his first run. Scored 36.90 on his second run after failing to land his penultimate jump,
"The whole practice and in the lead up to this, in training and stuff, I felt so confident. I was actually a bit gutted about my first run score to be honest. I was thinking mid 70s which was what I was hoping for, judging on what some of the other guys did. I thought my top section was really strong but obviously it wasn't to be. I'm looking forward to big air now."
Rowan Coultas, on his Olympic debut, got 23.58 in his first run, his best result, ranking him 18th in his heat.
"I'm gutted. I just wanted to land a run and just be stoked on it. I fell on a trick that I'm normally pretty strong at. I've landed it quite a few times in training but I didn't get it right. Coming into qualification I was really happy about my riding. My training went really well and I was just ready to do it in competition."
All three will next compete in the Big Air event which is new to the Olympics.