Queenstown skier Alice Robinson has missed out on the medals in the Giant Slalom at the Winter Olympics.
Robinson finished eighth in a very tight competition, missing out on the podium by just 0.18 seconds.
Italy's Federica Brignone completed a golden double on home snow adding the giant slalom title to the Super-G won last week, while US Alpine ski great Mikaela Shiffrin again missed out on a medal, finishing 11th.
Robinson made a couple of minor mistakes on her first run and was sitting in 10th position. She managed to improve a couple of places on her second run.
"I was pretty disappointed," Robinson said, describing the moment when she first crossed the line to see that she'd missed out on a medal spot.
"I came down, and I saw I was in fourth (and that point) and only 12 hundredths behind. It was hard, but then watching the rest of the race play out, it actually ended up a bit better than I thought."
Robinson finished eighth equal in the Super G last week.
"There have been so many emotions for me in the past month. I really wasn't sure what to expect today. I think GS has been a bit of a question mark for me the past two months. From having such a good start to the season and then I was really struggling a lot, especially in the last race," Robinson said.
"So, today I really didn't know what was going to happen. I felt a lot better on my skis but I didn't really feel like I was going to be in the running for a medal. Then to have it be so close and let it slip away, it was quite sad but I'm proud at the same time."
Snowboarders top qualifying
Dane Menzies and Zoi Sadowski-Synnot have topped their respective snowboarding slopestyle qualifications.
With bad weather forecast the competition was brought forward a day with Menzies putting in a strong first run which included a switch backside 1260 into frontside 1440, finishing with a 1660.
His score of 86.06 put him in the top spot, and there he stayed.
"It felt pretty good for sure, I definitely was not expecting that," said Menzies. "I didn't expect the judges to score that high, but they're liking my selection of rails, so that's good."
In the women's qualifying rounds, defending Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott made an immediate statement, posting an opening score of 81.73 to move into second place.
She went big on run two, adding a 1260 to her jump line and lifting her score to 88.08 to take over first place.
"It feels really good to land," said Sadowski-Synnott. "There was a lot of pressure going into today, but I'm just grateful that we got good weather so that all the girls could show their best snowboarding."
Lyon Farrell and Rocco Jamieson finished 15th and 18th respectively in the men's slopestyle qualifying, while Lucia Georgalli was 20th in the women's.
The women's slopestyle final is scheduled for 1am Wednesday morning (NZT) with the men's on Thursday at 12:30am (NZT).
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