Beijing 2022 freestyle skiing wrap-up – top stories, moments and records

Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics Beijing 2022 featured 13 exhilarating events and was a discipline where the hosts won half of their gold medals. Ailing (Eileen) Gu was one of the headliners of Beijing 2022 and fully lived up to the hype with spectacular and consistent performances throughout the Games, winning two golds and one silver. Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao both won gold in men's and women's aerials.

Walter Wallberg and Jakara Anthony made history in moguls for Sweden and Australia respectively. Norway's Birk Ruud won the inaugural men's big air gold, while Team USA won the inaugural mixed team aerials gold.

Swiss skier Mathilde Gremaud took the gold the next day in the women's slopestyle finals, edging Gu and Kelly Sildaru with a show-stopping second run. The innovative Alex Hall dazzled in the men's slopestyle event with a massive run scoring 90.01 in the first round to win gold for USA.

In ski cross, Switzerland went 1-2 in the men's event with 29-year-old Ryan Regez, who was competing in his first Olympics, winning gold and Alex Fiva, the reigning world champion and oldest competitor in the event at 36, taking the silver. In the women's event Sweden's 25-year-old Sandra Naeslund claimed the title after winning everything else in a stellar career.

New Zealander Nico Porteous, who won the bronze in 2018, closed out the freestyle programme by jumping all the way to the top of the podium to win the men's halfpipe after he pulled off a stunning 93.00 in his first run in the finals.

Ailing (Eileen) Gu began her campaign by putting in three show-stopping runs in the big air. She credited nine years of piano playing for her gold medal win. "I think of all my tricks as a rhythm, and music. The wind in my ears,