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Winter Olympics: GB's Mia Brookes' medal hopes over, misses snowboard slopestyle final

Mia Brookes' hopes of winning a second Olympic snowboard medal for Great Britain are over after she crashed out in qualifying for the women's slopestyle.

Moments after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale had combined for an historic gold in the snowboard cross team event, Brookes ranked a lowly 16th and missed out on a place in Tuesday's final.

It was a crushing blow for the 19-year-old, who finished fourth in the Big Air last week and was a major hope after winning X Games gold in the same event in Aspen, Colorado last month.

But Brookes crashed in her opening run and touched down in her second, top-scoring with 56.53 that was not enough to see her advance.

Elsewhere, Britain's men's curling team recorded a 9-4 victory over Germany in their round-robin match on Sunday morning. Two points in the first end got Bruce Mouat's side off to a fine start and they were always in control, with another two-point score in the final end sealing victory.

Britain's Bobby Lammie had one of his stones removed during the match after it was ruled he had double touched it, with surveillance increased by the umpires following Friday's clash between Canada and Sweden. The British women's team suffered defeat at the hands of Sweden, being beaten 10-7.

They were 8-3 down at one point but battled back to make it 9-7 going into the final end, but Sweden claimed a point to make sure of the win.

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Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo made Winter Olympic history as the Norwegian won his ninth gold medal as part of the men's 4 x 7.5km relay team.

Klaebo had already won three golds at the Milan-Cortina games, but in adding a fourth he surpassed three compatriots who had previously shared the record as the most successful Winter Olympians.

The 29-year-old was part of a squad that saw off the challenge of France and Italy at the Tesoro Cross-Country Stadium. Klaebo still has two events to go in the coming days, opening up the possibility of further medals.

He said: "That's cool. I've just tried to enjoy the moments today. Being able to do that and take the ninth one with the team is special and it couldn't be a better way to do that."

There was more delight for home fans as Italy's Federica Brignone secured her second gold of the 2026 Games -- winning the women's giant slalom at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre.

Having prevailed in the super-G, Brignone added another to her tally with a 0.62-seconds success over Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund and Sweden's Sara Hector, who shared the silver medal. There was no bronze medallist.

American Mikaela Shiffrin was expected to be among the front-runners, having won the title in 2018, but she finished down the field.