More Olympic heartbreak for Team GB as teenage sensation Mia Brookes, 19, fails to win medal after narrowly lacking world-first leap – simply hours after Kirsty Muir additionally completed fourth

Mia Brookes followed her Team GB compatriot Kirsty Muir as she missed out on a medal by a whisker as she finished in fourth place in the freestyle snowboarding Big Air event on Monday evening. 

The 19-year-old has twice won the World Cup in the discipline, but began her Olympic journey on Sunday with a wobble when she fell on her first jump qualifying for the final. 

Brushing herself off, Brookes then posted two superlative attempts that gave her the second-highest score on the night of 89 points. 

But from her first jump, the teenager looked unflappable, scoring 80.75 in her first run with a switch 1440 which placed her third in the early standings. 

With a backside 1260, she picked up a solid 78.75 in her second run to perch her third in the standings, but after recording a DNF on her final run – an ambitious 1620, she was forced to settle with just missing out on the podium with a total of 159.50 points. 

Instead, it was Yu Seungeun who claimed bronze with 171 points, Zoi Sadowski Synnott taking silver on 172.25 points and Kokomo Murase claiming a magnificent 179 points to crown her champion. 

Mia Brookes was unable to pull off her final jump as she narrowly missed out on a medal

Brookes is believed to have struggled with nerves at these Games, and admitted to Daily Mail Sport that she blocked them out with a heavy metal soundtrack of Metallica, Megadeath, and Pantera pulsing through her headphones. 

More to follow.  

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