Live: Australia’s Scott, Willcox up in aerials final, Hickman up later in slopestyle final

Cross-Country Skiing

Rosie Fordham and Phoebe Cridland 18th in Women’s Team Sprint qualification.

🥇Lars Young Vik and Hugo Hinkfuss qualify for the final of the Men’s Team Sprint at 10:15pm AEDT.

Aerials

🥇Danielle Scott and Abbey Willcox qualify for the Women’s Aerials final at 11pm AEDT.

Airleigh Frigo finishes 20th and Sidney Stephens 14th in qualification.

Alpine Skiing

🥇 Madison Hoffman and Phoebe Haydon will be in the Women’s Slalom final — run 1 at 8pm AEDT, run 2 at 11:30pm AEDT.

Snowboarding

🥇 Ally Hickman will compete in the Women’s Slopestyle final — run 1 is at 12:30am AEDT, run 2 is at 12:58am AEDT, run 3 is at 1:26am AEDT

Here comes Abbey Willcox with a back-full-full.

And she lands it!

I don’t think that will get into the Super final, but that is a great Olympic competition for the debutant.

She scores 74.97, and she remains in eighth.

Well, here we go!

American Winter Vinecki has nailed her back-full-full-full for a score of 107.75.

She’s fourth!

The Chinese trio of Shao Qi, Kong Fanyu and Xu Mengtao are all passing on run two according to the Olympic website.

Could someone (or two or three) pull something out?

We shall see.

Australia’s Danielle Scott is leading the women’s aerials final after run one, and that is good enough for her.

She has taken the option of passing on run two.

She would need six people to land jumps scoring more than her 117.19 for her to miss out.

Canada’s Marion Thenault doesn’t quite get her landing in the final jump of round one.

She scores 103.89, good for fifth.

The top scorers after run one:

Danielle Scott (AUS) 117.19

Kong Fanyu (CHN) 113.33

Xu Mengtao (CHN) 107.75

Shao Qi (CHN) 105.93

Marion Thenault (CAN) 103.89

Winter Vinecki (USA) 99.89

Abbey Willcox is eighth with 88.83

The levels are going up here at Livigno.

How will Danielle Scott answer?

She goes for a back-full-full-full, a triple twisting somersault.

And she’s landed it! What a jump!

Scott is known for her triples, and she’s done that so well.

What will she score?

She takes the lead!! It’s 117.19.

My goodness! Game on.

Scott is definitely through to the Super final you would think.

The Chinese skiers have been bringing it here for the final.

Shao Qi is up with a back-lay-full-full.

She lands it as well!

But it’s not as complex a jump. 105.93.

Another of China’s four finalists, Kong Fanyu.

She’s doing a back-full-full-full.

And she has stuck that one!

She looked solid in the air and that landing was excellent.

How will the judges compare her to Xu Mengtao.

She sweeps her aside! 113.33. That’s huge.

China’s Xu Mengtao goes for a full-full-full.

And she lands it! She is happy with that, nailing the triple twisting somersault.

That’s why she was the champion four years ago.

Can she grab control of the final here?

Yes she can!!!! 107.75 – that’s the benchmark now.

It’s American Kaila Kuhn next.

She goes for a back-lay-full-full, she gets big air but ow!

That was a heavy backslap on the snow there.

She still gets 87.00 in fourth.

China’s Chen Meiting is up now.

She goes for a back-full-full-full, a triple twisting somersault.

She gets decent air, and she lands it. What’s the score?

98.73!! She goes into second.

Independent Neutral Athlete Hanna Huskova goes for a back-lay-tuck-full.

She lands it, not perfectly but well…

She scores 86.44, and she is third behind Abbey Willcox.

Aussie Abbey Willcox with a back-full-double full.

Here she comes … and she sticks the landing!

That was good, stretching and double twisting.

What will she score?

It’s 88.83, she goes second!

American Winter Vinecki is up third, with a back-lay-full-full.

And she stomps the landing!

Vinecki had issues in qualifying, but that was more than solid.

She scores 99.89, and she goes into the lead.

Next up is Germany’s Emma Weiss with a back-full-double full.

Oh! that is not a good landing. She lands skis down but quickly goes flat on the snow.

She scores a 45.82.

The American skier goes first.

And she lands her back-full-full double twisting somersault perfectly!

Not the most difficult jump but you can’t ask more than that.

She gets 85.36.

The conditions at the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park are absolutely perfect today.

Blue skies, incredible visibility and crisp, cool conditions have greeted the athletes.

That all means that the only way to get on the podium will be to land a triple BUT because the snow has frozen hard overnight, the landing has been causing problems for a few athletes who have attempted the triples so far.

It’s going to be fascinating to see how the big hitters handle these conditions in the finals – the interplay between risk and reward is a desperately fine line.

There are three runs for the women’s aerials final.

Australia has two skiers in the final, Danielle Scott and Abbey Willcox.

Run one is set for 11:00pm AEDT.

The top six scores after the first two runs qualify for the Super final (medal round).

The order for run 1 (remember scores get wiped from the qualification, but the qualifiers from Q1 are in reverse order at the bottom):

1 Tasia Tanner (USA)

2 Emma Weiss (GER)

3 Winter Vinecki (USA)

4 Abbey Willcox (AUS)

5 Hanna Huskova (AIN)

6 Chen Meiting (CHN)

7 Kaila Kuhn (USA)

8 Xu Mengtao (CHN)

9 Kong Fanyu (CHN)

10 Shao Qi (CHN)

11 Danielle Scott (AUS)

12 Marion Thenault (CAN)

On this day in 2002, Alisa Camplin claimed her first Winter Olympic medal, a golden one too, in the aerials at Salt Lake City.

A good omen?