Winter Olympics: Gus Kenworthy finishes eighth as Nico Porteous wins freeski halfpipe

Team GB's Gus Kenworthy had to settle for eighth in his last Olympic final as his freestyle skiing career came to an end in Beijing.

The 30-year-old fell on both his first and second runs, the latter a huge hit on the ledge of the halfpipe.

Kenworthy won slopestyle silver for the United States in 2014, changing allegiance to Great Britain — the country of his birth — in 2019.

«Thank you for everything skiing,» he said after his last run scored 71.25.

New Zealand's Nico Porteous won gold with a best score of 93.00. Americans David Wise and Alex Ferreira claimed silver and bronze respectively.

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