Brits together: Kirsty Muir and Katie Summerhayes qualify for ski slopestyle final

The first person to greet Katie Summerhayes when she landed her second run in the freeski slopestyle qualification was teammate Kirsty Muir. "It's so cold", said the 26-year-old, who is at her third Olympic Winter Games, as she skied into the finish area and into the embrace of her compatriot who had just completed her own run.

By competition's end, both had qualified for the final, taking place on Tuesday 15 February at the Genting Snow Park, a debut final appearance in this discipline for Muir and a third for Summerhayes.

Muir, 17, qualified in sixth with a best score of 70.11, with Summerhayes coming in 10th with a top mark of 66.56. They take their positions in the top-12 final, with the scores starting from scratch so it's all to play for.

The much-anticipated rivalry between Estonia's Kelly Sildaru, who qualified top (86.15), and People's Republic of China's Ailing (Eileen) Gu (79.38) already a gold medallist at Beijing 2022, in big air, is all set to play out and it's proving a mouth-watering prospect.

Muir, the youngest competitor for Team GB at Beijing 2022, who has already claimed a fifth place at the inaugural big air event on Tuesday (8 February), said after qualifying: "I'm really happy to have made it through. I need to clean some things up but I'm really happy."

On the first run – and the score that took her through to the final – she said, "I did have a few mistakes, so I was hoping to clean up the second run. I didn't manage to but going into tomorrow I'm looking forward to it, I just want to clean it up".

Summerhayes commented on her qualification: "I'm pretty happy. Obviously, I just squeaked through, it's pretty nice no matter what place you qualify, just so long as tomorrow goes well. I'm pretty