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Close call for Mia Brookes in big air as Team GB endure Tragic Monday

  • Snowboarder finishes fourth after going for broke

  • Curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds lose semi-final

As Team GB’s Mia Brookes stood at the top of a 150ft‑high ramp before her final jump of the big air competition, she had the pounding heavy metal of Pantera blasting her ears, and the smell of an Olympic medal in her nostrils.

To grab it, though, the snow­boarding sensation knew she would have to land a trick she had never attempted before on snow – and one so dangerous that she feared it would put her in hospital.

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