Olympic freestyle ski slopestyle final, women: Preview, schedule and stars to watch - Ailing (Eileen) Gu to do the double?

Ailing (Eileen) Gu: One down, two to go with gold at the freestyle ski slopestyle final at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games next up?

She'll have to get past Kelly Sildaru first after the Estonian ski star topped qualifying on Monday 14 February.

Sildaru's second run scored 86.15 to top the charts ahead of Norway's Johanne Killi in second with a big second run that scored 86.00.

Gu was third with her best 79.38 run, after a disappointing first run that had her on 57.28 and qualification in peril she needed a big Run 2 and delivered.

But that won't worry her, it was a similar story in her historic big air gold medal win where she didn't top the qualies either.

It's all about the final.

Freeski superstar Gu has already made history for China by winning the big air gold medal, and has emerged as one of the biggest stars in Beijing.

She has her eye on a truly historic feat as she aims to win three gold medals and sweep the freeski titles in Beijing.

That's a lot of pressure for an 18-year-old, but she told Olympics.com that she has ways of dealing with it including piano, composing her own songs, meditation and long showers to 'stay in her own head'.

It's been a bit of a longer wait for the ski slopestyle finals too because of the weather but now with the two rescheduled qualification runs done, the picture is a little clearer.

"It went super well," the leader Sildaru told Olympics.com after qualifying.

"I guess I qualify for the finals which is super nice," she said before confirmation that she finished in top spot. Temperatures dropped overnight and in the morning qualifying it was cold. Like -17C cold.

"It’s actually a bit hard to ski with that cold weather because I'm not used to it. So, my body's always cold,"