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Women’s halfpipe qualifying: Thinking about my attempts to stand on a skateboard as young women in baggy snow trousers zig-zag and float across the halfpipe.

Korean Gaon Choi , Chloe Kim’s biggest rival, flies effortlessly through the air, rhythmic and big, with an average of 2.8m jumps and, I’m told, a very difficult switchback side seven (?) to open. It’s only enough to put her second, to the raised eyebrows of the commentators.

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