24 Feb 2010

Slow start cost Greig in Vancouver

7:13 pm on 24 February 2010

The New Zealand free-style skier Mitchey Greig failed to make the quarter-finals of the women's ski-cross at the Winter Olympics , finishing last in her heat.

Greig was one of the slowest in the time trials, only just qualifying for the heats in 30th.

She says she's had plenty of practice on the course over the past few days, but struggled today on the initial section of the track in both her qualification and heat.

Earlier the alpine skier Ben Griffin failed to finish in the first run of the giant slalom.