Mia Brookes blasted into the Olympic women's snowboard Big Air final on Sunday night, while Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds suffered their first defeat.

Team GB's Kirsty Muir goes for medal in freeski slopestyle final (11:30) Reigning Olympic and world champion Mathilde Gremaud and China's Eileen Gu expected to challenge Five golds to be won and lots of British interest on day three - follow our daily guide Emily Salley,

The Olympic champion was Team GB’s flagbearer at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

The British Winter Olympics team have failed with an attempt to debut a state-of-the-art new helmet in the skeleton bobsleigh next week.

Every four years, the Winter Olympics deliver two certainties: gravity-defying athletic feats and national team kits that range from quietly excellent to brave. Team GB usually lands closer to the former than the latter, but even then, not everything designed for elite sport is built for everyday life.

Great Britain have lost their appeal against a ban on new helmets they had hoped to use in the Olympic skeleton competition in Cortina next week.

Team GB's Mia Brookes (89) is 22nd while team-mate Maisie Hill (20) is 29th and last. Remember, athletes can discard the worst of their three runs, so Brookes and others with one bad score can shoot up the standings if they score well on their final effort.

Team GB have been caught up in a row about illegal helmets on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics.

Team GB freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy posted a graphic message to social media joining the chorus protesting against ICE

A storm is brewing at the Winter Olympics after skeleton officials banned Great Britain’s new helmet unveiled days before the competition. The well-funded Team GB outfit has tapped into Formula 1 and cycling partners to shoot to top of the pack in skeleton, dominated in recent times by men’s medal favourites Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt.

Instead, Great Britain’s Olympic skeleton team have been banned from wearing its new aerodynamic helmets for the sport. The team had hoped to use them in the competition in Cortina next week, but insist this ban won’t affect their medal bid.