Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: Goggia grit and biathlon blues

Today in a nutshell: Gu just misses out and Goggia makes incredible injury recovery amid a Swiss ski gold rush, while Valieva’s team make an astounding claim

Next up: Curling, bobsleigh and ice hockey wrap up today’s events. Tomorrow the men’s ice hockey quarter-finals take place, there is a women’s biathlon relay to enjoy and the prospect of some exciting-looking sprint cross-country skiing

Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud soared to gold in the Olympic women’s freeski slopestyle final after holding off another last-gasp charge by Eileen Gu, the American-born emerging superstar representing China, who settled for silver by the narrowest of margins but stayed on course for a historic treble at the Beijing Games.

Sheffield’s Katie Summerhayes put down three complete runs that pleased the British team by the finish area, but was unable to challenge the frontrunners and finished in eighth, one place ahead of the talented Aberdeen teenager Kirsty Muir.

Sofia Goggia, the Pyeongchang 2018 gold medallist and dominant force in downhill this season, injured the cruciate ligament in her left knee during a crash 23 days ago and it was touch-and-go whether she would be able to race in China. Against the odds she took the silver medal in the women’s downhill today for Italy. “Physically I’m not in shape, I couldn’t charge. I’m not able to move as I want. Sometimes things don’t work as you want. But I really gave everything I could ... I had no room for doubts,” she said afterwards. Gold went to Switzerland’s Corinne Suter, herself having recovered from injury at the start of the season.

Meanwhile, Kamila Valieva’s legal team has claimed that the figure skater’s positive drugs test may have come from a contaminated glass of water that