Winter Olympics

The Canadians will be waving their maple leaf flags following Jasey Jay Anderson's Snowboard PGS win

Conditions were again challenging at Cypress Mountain for the Men’s snowboard PGS, with riders being shielded from the rain by umbrellas in the start gates whilst the crowd braved the weather in a sea of ponchos.

Team GB rider Adam McLeish put in a good performance with consistent times across his opening runs but unfortunately failed to make it into the top 16 going through from the Qualifiers to the knockout rounds, finishing 24th overall.

Three Canadian riders made it through to the 1/8 Finals but by the Quarters it was just Jasey Jay Anderson holding the hopes of the host nation.

With the home crowd behind him Anderson made it through to the medal rounds, holding his nerve all the way to the Big Final to take glorious gold despite starting from a time disadvantage in the final run against silver medallist Benjamin Karl of Austria.

A start gate technical error meant that both the Small and Big Finals’ second and deciding runs were started verbally without the usual sound signal, which threw Russia’s Stanislav Detkov causing him to hit the barrier and gift the bronze to France’s Mathieu Bozzetto.

The fault followed an almost comical series of races for 5th-8th with a no show from Rok Flander of Slovenia resulting in a series of twists including Swiss Simon Schoch coming out of the start gate miming the breaststroke in a pair of swimming goggles before promptly heading off the side of the course, his start securing his run.

The farce might cause organisers to reassess the system that decides 5th-8th position with it suggested that times from the qualifying round could potentially be used instead to avoid redundant races in the closing stages of the PGS with the focus on the Small and Big Final.