MUIR SEALS PERSONAL BEST OLYMPIC RESULT IN FREESKI SLOPESTYLE
Kirsty Muir delivered the strongest Olympic performance of her career with a fourth place finish in the women’s Freeski Slopestyle final, missing out on a maiden Olympic podium by just 0.41 points.
Errors on her first two runs put the pressure on for her final lap, but the 21-year-old show composure and produced a standout series of rails before stepping it up on the jumps with a switch misty 9, right double 10 and finishing with her trademark left double 14.
The performance earned her a score of 76.05, leaving her a narrowly behind Canada’s Megan Oldham in a tightly contested battle for the bronze medal.
Muir will be back on the slopes on Saturday 14 February as she turns her attention to Big Air.
BROOKES BAGS FOURTH PLACE IN OLYMPIC DEBUT
Mia Brookes marked a sensational Olympic debut, finishing fourth in the women’s Snowboard Big Air finals and recording the best Olympic result for a female Team GB athlete in the event.
The 19-year-old put on a spectacular show, throwing her first ever backside 1620; the first flat 1620 by any female snowboarder. A small scrub on the landing ultimately cost her a podium place, but it was a landmark moment in women’s snowboarding.
Brookes was still able to put down a Cab 1440 and a backside 1260 on her previous two runs, earning a combined score of 159.50 and placing her firmly among the world’s elite in her first Olympic appearance.
Speaking afterwards, Brookes said:
“I gave it everything I could, that was a new trick that I have never even tried on snow, so I can definitely go home saying I gave it everything. I pushed myself way more than I would have done in any other comp tonight, so I am just stoked that I pushed myself through that and I am stoked I tried that trick to be honest. It’s gnarly trick and it’s high risk.”
“It was definitely quite nerve-wracking, you have got to give it everything you have got, because you only get once every four years to try it, so it is definitely a lot of pressure, but other than that, it is really chill.”
Brookes will now shift her focus to her preferred discipline, the women’s Snowboard Slopestyle which is coming up on Monday 16 February.
KIRSTY MUIR BECOMES THE FIRST GB SNOWSPORT ATHLETE OF THE MILAN-CORTINA GAMES 2026 TO QUALIFY FOR AN OLYMPIC FINAL
Kirsty Muir made an impressive start to her second Winter Olympic Games, qualifying for the Women’s Freeski Slopestyle finals in Livigno.
The 21-year-old qualified in third place behind China’s Eileen Gu and and the reigning Olympic champion, Matilde Gremaud of Switzerland.
Muir delivered a highly technical rail section, followed by a flawless jump line featuring a a switch misty 9, right double 10 and left cork 7, to score her 64.98 on her second run, which comfortably placed her among the top 12 athletes progressing to the final.
Muir will take to the course for a final time on Monday 9th February at 11:30 GMT, where she will look to build on her 4th place in Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.
Speaking afterwards, Muir said:
“This morning, I was quite good, I was quite focused, I was able to calm myself down a little bit, but I feel like my heart was maybe just racing a little bit more than usual. After I put my first run down, I felt a bit of a relief and felt like I could just be a bit smoother in myself. Just knowing I can do it when I’m feeling a little bit nervous, when I’m feeling a little bit of pressure, knowing that I can trust myself and put it down.”
Looking ahead to the final, she added:
“I’m stoked to make it through and I’m just going to give it everything. I’m not going to hold back. If I do that and I put a run down that I’d like to, I’ll be super proud of myself.”
CHRIS MCCORMICK SEALS OLYMPIC STATUS
Chris McCormick made his Olympic debut in the men’s Freeski Slopestyle, delivering a composed and technical performance to finish 26th overall.
The 24-year-old fought hard to showcase his skill set, opening his run with a demanding series of rails, followed by a switch right double 14 into a switch left double 12 on the jumps.
Whilst he was unable to put down the run he had planned, the performance marked an important milestone in his Olympic journey and cemented his status and as Olympian.
Attention now turns to the Freeski Big Air, where the Scotsman will look to build on his Olympic debut on Sunday 15th February.
ANNA PRYCE MAKES HISTORY ON OLYMPIC DEBUT
Anna Pryce made history for Team GB by becoming the first British athlete to compete in the women’s 10km + 10km Skiathlon at an Olympic Games.
The 24-year-old finished 42nd on her Olympic debut, completing the race in a time of 1:01:09.5 against a world-class field.
Her next event follows in a matter of days as she takes on the women’s Sprint Classic on Tuesday 10th February.
Five medals, three of them gold, see Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir make history
Gold Rush in Aspen
British athletes stormed to an historic five-medal showing at X Games 2026, with Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir all leaving an indelible mark on the most storied of freestyle sport competitions.
Gold medal winning performance Atkin in Freeski Halfpipe, Brookes in Snowboard Slopestyle, and Muir in Freeski Slopestyle were backed up by Big Air silver and bronze medals for Muir and Brookes respectively, giving British athletes their biggest ever X Games medal haul, and confirming Britain’s standing as one of the most progressive nations in Park & Pipe competition.
Brookes kicked things off in spectacular style with a dominant Slopestyle victory, before Atkin put her own polish on proceedings with gold in the Superpipe. Brookes’ day two Big Air medal, delivered with a signature cab-14, put Britain at three podiums from three performanecs, before Muir capped things off in spectacular form with a brace of day three medals, and a best ever set of British X Games results.
Ryding signs off in Kitzbuehel with 20th
On a slope steeped in British Slalom history, Dave Ryding marked his final Kitzbuehel performance with a battling 20th place finish. The site of three of Ryding’s seven World Cup podiums, Kitzbuehel was written into British history when the country’s greatest ever Alpine ski racer took the nation’s first ever Slalom World Cup victory there in 2022, before following it up with a second place finish just a year later. While a fourth Kitzbuehel podium never appeared in the offing, Ryding was nevertheless the pick of the Brits, finishing just over a second outside of the top-10.
Billy Major secured a fifth top-30 berth of the season finishing in 24th, while Laurie Taylor was a first run DNQ and Luca Carrick-Smith a first run DNF, while in the Speed events Roy Steudle recorded a Super-G DNF and 53rd in Downhill.
Para squad deliver solid performances in Lenk and Jakuszyce
The Para Nordic and Para Snowboard squads recorded solid performances in the Jakuszyce Para Biathlon World Cup and Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup and Europa Cup races, as teams gear up towards the Paralympic Winter Games in early March.
In Para Nordic, Scott Meenagh‘s best result came in the 7.5km Sprint where he finished fifth, before coming eighth and seventh in the Sprint Pursuit and 12.5km Individual events.
In Para Snowboard, James Barnes-Miller came closest to a medal finishing sixth and fourth in back-to-back showings, while Ollie Hill took seventh and ninth berths. In the Europa Cup field, Davy Zyw took his third EC podium of the season, and first in SBX, with a third place finish.
Taylor victorious in Melchsee-Frutt
Jaz Taylor added another Telemark World Cup victory to her illustrious record, winning the first of back-to-back Parallel Sprint World Cups in Melchsee-Frutt. The result gives Taylor her third podium and second victory of the 2025/26 World Cup season, and the third of her career in Melchsee-Frutt.
21-year-old Scot delivers sensational Slopestyle performance to take maiden X Games victory amid stunning displays for British contingent
Kirsty Muir secured a third victory and fourth podium for British athletes at the 2026 X Games in Aspen, Colorado, finishing first in the Women’s Freeski Slopestyle.
Muir’s victory marks her first X Games title having previously taken bronze medals in Slopestyle and Big Air at the 2023 edition. In a competition delayed by 24 hours due to poor weather conditions yesterday evening, Muir soared into top spot on her first run with a mammoth score of 93.66, leaving the rest of the field trailing in her wake.
With no other skier able to exceed the 90 point mark, Muir’s victory made her the third Brit to stand atop the podium at this year’s X Games, following Mia Brookes’ victory in Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle, and Zoe Atkin’s gold medal winning performance in the Women’s Freeski Superpipe.
With the Slopestyle title in the bag, Muir added her second and Britain’s fifth medal of the 2026 X Games with a spectacular silver in the Women’s Freeski Big Air, the Scot’s second place sealed with a massive left double 16 to finish just 0.66 points behind eventual winner Mathilde Gremaud.
Pat Sharples, GB Snowsport Head Coach, said:
“Kirsty’s performance in today’s Slopestyle was just sensational. The quality of her first run really put the pressure on the field, and she got the reward she deserved.
“This whole X Games has been by far Britain’s most successful ever Games, with wins from Zoe in Halfpipe, Mia in Slopestyle – as well as a bronze in Big Air – and now Kirsty’s performance; honestly, I can’t quite believe it. We’re all so incredible proud of the team, the coaches, the support staff, and everyone who’s done an outstanding job. Now we’re fully focused on the final X Games contests and, from there, the Olympics, which we’ll be going in to with high confidence across the team.”
Freeski sensation takes Britain’s second X Games title of 2026 contest
Zoe Atkin took gold with a sensational performance in the Women’s Freeski Superpipe competition at X Games last night, giving Britain a second victory of the Games following Mia Brookes’ earlier Snowboard Slopestyle title.
In a field featuring some of the world’s top Freeski Halfpipe talent, Atkin took victory with a score of 94.66, finishing 4.66 points ahead of Indra Brown in second place.
Victory gives Atkin a third career X Games podium following victory in the 2023 competition and a silver medal in 2024, while she also boasts three World Cup podiums this season having taken gold in Copper and silver in Secret Garden and Buttermilk.
Atkin was yesterday confirmed as part of the snowsport contingent selected to represent Team GB at the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, her second Team GB selection having also competed in the Beijing Games in 2022.
A jam-packed week saw success across multiple disciplines for GB Snowsport athletes
Neil Simpson goes four-from-four in Para Alpine
Neil Simpson delivered a series of standout performances at the Saalbach Para Alpine World Cup, taking four podiums from four races across Downhill and Super-G disciplines. A pair of DH bronze medals, guided by Andrew Simpson and by Rob Poth, and Super-G silver and bronze with Poth and Simpson respectively guiding made it a blue ribbon week for a discipline steeped in British Paralympic heritage.
Bankes’ brilliance to the fore in Snowboard Cross
Charlotte Bankes showed her world class standing in back-to-back World Cups in Dongbeiya, China, taking gold and bronze on consecutive days. A dominant performance in the weekend’s first race saw Bankes top the standings in qualifiers, quarters, semis, and finals, while the second day’s competition saw her grab bronze in a tightly-contested final races.
On the men’s side, Huw Nightingale continued to show his ability to mix it with the best in the world coming 17th in the weekend’s first contest after qualifying in 14th, while in the second of the weekend’s races, Max Vardy progressed to the knockout stages for the first time before finishing in 20th place.
Barnes-Miller bags silver in Kuehtai Para Snowboard World Cup
James Barnes-Miller grabbed a sensational silver medal in the Kuehtai Para Snowboard Banked Slalom World Cup alongside a seventh place finish in a typically competitive Men’s UL field. Barnes-Miller’s podium, his first of the World Cup season, came amid a week of strong Para Snowboard performances across the board, with Ollie Hill also taking a top-five finish, Nina Sparks twice finishing inside the top-ten, and Davy Zyw taking a brace of Europa Cup podiums with a silver and a bronze.
Taylor takes Telemark silver
Jaz Taylor‘s podium successes continued with a silver medal winning performance in the first of back-to-back Carezza World Cup races, and giving her a second podium of the season following her Sprint World Cup win in Pinzolo in December.
And the rest…
The Men’s Slalom team faced down battling conditions in the Lauberhorn slope in Wengen, with Luca Carrick-Smith the pick of the bunch, finishing 34th after the first run in a personal best World Cup showing. Billy Major and Laurie Taylor came in 41st and 42nd on the first run respectively, while Dave Ryding was a first run DNF with a straddle.
The Women’s night Slalom in Flachau saw Vici Palla record a first run DNF.
In Cross-Country, James Clugnet delivered the weekend’s best showing, finishing 32nd in Sprint Free qualifying to narrowly miss out on Finals, while in Moguls Makayla Gerken Schofield finished 26th in the individual women’s event in a race week impacted by poor weather conditions.
She Who Dares and Keep Calm and Slalom to focus on some of country’s biggest name athletes ahead of Milan-Cortina Games
GB Snowsport athletes are set to feature in two major new TNT Sports documentaries in the build-up to the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games.
Coming shortly before the first Winter Olympics on a European timezone since Sochi 2014, both documentaries have seen film crews and producers granted unprecedented access to some of Britain’s most exciting ski and snowboard athletes, and will provide a new and unique viewpoint on the journey towards Milan-Cortina.
She Who Dares
In She Who Dares, the experiences of female Freestyle stars Zoe Atkin, Charlotte Bankes, Mia Brookes, Makayla Gerken Schofield, and Kirsty Muir as well as GB Snowsport chief Executive, Vicky Gosling, will be brought to the fore, giving viewers a chance to gain unique insight into the preparation and reflections of the some of the biggest names in women’s snowsport through their build-up towards the Olympic Winter Games.
Filmed over almost a year, the documentary will give new and experienced fans the most in-depth view yet of the characters behind some of Britain’s most remarkable sporting successes of recent years.
Keep Calm and Slalom
Billed as an underdog story in the greatest tradition of British sporting successes, Keep Calm and Slalom follows the Men’s Alpine World Cup team of Billy Major, Dave Ryding, and Laurie Taylor as the three push for selection for the Milan-Cortina Games. Up against teams with budgets far in excess of their own, the documentary team goes behind-the-scenes with the team as they travel for training and World Cup competitions in a bid to secure the spots needed to represent Team GB in Milan-Cortina.
Both documentaries will premiere on TNT Sports later this month, ahead of the opening of the Milan-Cortina Games in 6 February.
Find out more here.
Park & Pipe athletes bank first podiums of the new year
Muir secures Slopestyle gold
Kirsty Muir dominated the women’s field in Aspen in her first Slopestyle World Cup of the season, taking the second World Cup Slopestyle victory of her career in the process. Having topped the leaderboard in qualifications, Muir backed it up in the finals with another composed and challenging run to seal gold ahead of the Canadian pair of Megan Oldham and Elena Gaskell.
Chris McCormick and James Pouch also competed in their first Slopestyle World Cup of the season, both finishing inside the top 50 in a highly challenging field.
In the snowboard competition, Txema Mazet-Brown finished 46th and will be looking to improve on that result when he takes to the slopes in the Swiss resort of Laax this week.
Elsewhere, Mia Langridge continued her impressive season by taking her first Europa Cup win at the ‘Rock A Rail’ Europa Cup in Budapest. The win adds to three silver medals already collected this season, and underlines her growing reputation on the rail-jam scene.
Atkin takes silver while Kenworthy delivers in Finals
Zoe Atkin stood on the Freeski Halfpipe podium for the third time this season, securing silver at the Aspen World Cup in a Finals of exceptional quality. Atkin led the field in qualification and produced another strong showing in finals, showcasing her signature left-5 mute, and finishing the run with a switch cork-5 safety, to step onto the podium once again, with China’s Fanghui Li just pipping her to the gold medal by 0.25 points.
Gus Kenworthy also impressed, making his third final of the season after qualifying sixth in heat one. He opened finals with a huge right double-12 mute, into a left double-14, finishing the event in eighth place
Earlier in the men’s competition, Sam Gaskin finished 40th, while on the snowboard side, Siddhartha Ullah landed 28th and Aaron Wild 34th.
Double header for Alpine athletes in Madonna and Adelboden
A packed week for the men’s Alpine Slalom squad, started in Mandonna di Campiglio, Italy, before moving onto Adelboden, Switzerland.
In Madonna, Laurie Taylor qualified in 11th ahead of the second run, before a second run DNF. Billy Major and Dave Ryding sat just outside of the top 30 in 33rd and 34th, while Luca Carrick-Smith recorded a DNF on run one.
An improvement in Adelboden, saw Major, Ryding, and Taylor all make the top 30. Ryding led the charge with a hard-fought 13th place, while Major and Taylor put on a strong show to claim 19th and 22nd respectively.
Luca Carrick-Smith and Freddy Carrick-Smith both recorded DNF’s on their first run in the Slalom and Giant Slalom, but the pair gained valuable experience competing on the World Cup circuit.
Battle at the Para Biathlon in Notschrei
Scott Meenagh produced a strong showing at the IBU Para-Biathlon World Cup in Notschrei. Despite a rifle malfunction in the 12.5km Individual, Scott battled back to secure sixth place in the Sprint Pursuit. He rounded off the week with another consistent performance in the 7.5km Sprint, finishing seventh to cap a positive competition for the British athlete.
Weather interferes with Moguls
Challenging weather conditions forced a delayed start to the final women’s Moguls World Cup. That didn’t stop Makayla Gerken-Schofield from showing up and pushing through in a highly competitive field to finish 32nd.
Halfpipe World Champion delivers third podium of sparkling season
Zoe Atkin secured a second British World Cup podium of the weekend, taking second place in a tightly contested Aspen Freeski Halfpipe World Cup this evening.
The reigning Halfpipe World Champion topped the standings in qualification, but was forced to settle for silver as she finished finals 0.25 points behind China’s Fanghui Li, with a score of 92.75 to Li’s 93.00.
The result gives Atkin her third World Cup podium of the season following a season-opening silver in Secret Garden and her gold medal winning showing at the Copper Mountain World Cup in December, and matches the World Cup medal tally the 22-year-old secured last season on her way to a share of the 2025 Crystal Globe.
Speaking afterwards, Zoe said:
“I’m super excited, I’m really happy to be able to put both my runs down in the Finals and end up on the podium at the last World Cup before the Olympics. I’m feeling super confident, really excited to get back to training and work on a couple of new things in preparation for the Games. I’m excited, and I hope everyone’s going to be watching along!”
GB Snowsport Head Coach, Pat Sharples, added:
“Zoe is really helping push women’s pipe skiing to the next level right now. Her amplitude, clean and solid grabs, and the technicality of her run is becoming more and more consistent, and it’s so good to see all her hard work paying off. These are really exciting times for Zoe, for us as a team, and for the whole of the sport.”