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Oh no! It is absolute heartbreak for favourite Finley Melville Ives.

The New Zealander has hit the snow for the second time in this men's freeski halfpipe qualification.

This incident is worse than the first one though, and it has halted proceedings at Livigno Snow Park.

It looks like his legs couldn't withstand the impact on landing one of his tricks. There are such fine margins in this event.

What an awful introduction to the Winter Olympics for the 19-year-old, who is the reigning world champion and X Games champion.

It's still all to ski for in the men's freeski halfpipe at Livigno Snow Park - and the second runs are about to take place.

As a reminder, skiers are given a score out of 100.00 for each of their two runs and their best one is used to determine their final ranking.

The top 12 skiers, including any tied for 12th place, advance to the final. Due to poor conditions yesterday, the final will also take place today.

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All 25 freestyle skiers have completed their first qualification runs on the halfpipe now, so let's see how the standings are looking:

1. Nick Goepper (USA) - 90.00
2. Brendan Mackay (Canada) - 87.75
3. Alex Ferreira (USA) - 85.75
4. Birk Irving (USA) - 84.25
5. Hunter Hess (USA) - 82.75

The Americans are dominating - as expected - but Great Britain's Gus Kenworthy is in sixth and most definitely in the race for qualification!

Fellow Brit Liam Richards finds himself in 15th after the opening runs, so qualification isn't out of the question for him either.

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A fantastic jump from Pirmin Werner puts the Swiss athlete top after the first round of jumps in this men's aerials qualification round.

Werner is one of six who go straight through to the final, alongside defending champion Qi Guangpu of China, while those outside the top six will jump again to determine the other six finalists.

Noe Roth, also of Switzerland, is among the leading medal contenders but his score of 109.05 was only enough for eighth so he will have to jump again.

1. Pirmin Werner (Switzerland) - 122.17
2. Qi Guangpu (China) - 120.80
3. Wang Xindi (China) - 118.10
4. Lewis Irving (Canada) - 117.70
5. Connor Curran (USA) - 117.26
6. Oleksandr Okipniuk (Ukraine) - 112.67

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

Oh no.

Some fans have brought vuvuzelas to the halfpipe. Did we not leave them behind at the 2010 World Cup?

The snow is falling fairly heavy again here. The slippers, who sweep the course of loose snow, have been down the pipe doing Usain Bolt’s lightning bolt pose. They’ve moved on from the Mobot from earlier in the Games.

Tori Beattie
Ski and snowboard judge

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Earlier New Zealand youngster Luke Harrold received a 65.50 score after completing back-to-back 16s, but a heavy landing saw his score pulled back by the judges.

Here's the reason why...

So in this scenario, the methodology to get the score is almost a score and deduct.

So, what might he have got if the run was perfect, and then we're going to deduct him X amount of points for that landing.

So that indicates that was a high score for Luke Harrold.

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Ireland's Benjamin Lynch double fist-pumps the air as he completes his first run.

His amplitude was there at 3.5 metres and he cleanly executed five tricks, but his heavy landings pull his score back to 57.00.

As just one of four athletes representing the country at this year's Winter Olympics, he can be super proud.

BBC One

On BBC One we have men's freeski halfpipe qualification, with Team GB's Gus Kenworthy and Liam Richards still to do their second run.

Then on the Red Button and iPlayer there's men's freeski aerials qualifiers to watch.

Tori Beattie
Ski and snowboard judge

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It's so confidence-inspiring to land your first run. It takes all the pressure off run two.

Liam had all the elements there in terms of variety, it just really is that amplitude.

Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC One

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Now Liam's got that score on the board, he can build on it and let it rip for the second run.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC One

The technicality was there for Liam Richards but the key was in the amplitude.

There's a finals run lurking in there if he can push that amplitude up.

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Great Britain's Liam Richards will be happy with his first-ever Winter Olympic halfpipe run!

The 18-year-old kicks things off with a fabulous switch nine and executes an alley-oop to finish.

His clean run lands him a score of 54.50, which is inside of the qualification spots for now.

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Athletes launch themselves 20m into the air off a ramp at up to 45mph and are judged on their take-off, height, distance, tricks and landing.

Brendan Mackay squeaks into second with a strong 87.75 opening run.

The Canadian goes big with a double alley-oop to kick things off and completes back-to-back 1260s with a subtle tail grab.

Tori Beattie
Ski and snowboard judge

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Halfpipe scoring is back in traditional ranking.

So, the scores the judges give is just a mechanism to rank the riders so they're just sort of slotting them in in terms of their performances by looking at them with the five criteria [amplitude, difficulty, variety, execution and progression].

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Qualification for the men's aerials, which was rescheduled from Thursday because of bad weather, is also under way.

Qualification 1 started at 09:30 with the top six-ranked skiers after a single round of jumps progressing directly to the final at 12:30.

The remaining athletes jump for a second time in Qualification 2 at 10:15 but are not allowed to repeat the same tricks. The best six (using their top score from the two runs) also qualify for the final.

China's Qi Guangpu currently leads the way with a score of 120.80 midway through the first round of jumps.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC One

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Gus does not hold back in the pipe and it's a joy to watch.

So strong.

Tori Beattie
Ski and snowboard judge

Kenworthy executed that well, he ticked the variety boxes and take-off directions. A solid run.

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Here comes Great Britain's Gus Kenworthy...

He isn't one to hold back in the pipe - and he cruises through his routine with a big alley-oop to finish.

It's a score of 81.25 for the experienced 34-year-old - he will be pleased with that!

It's a much better first run for USA's Nick Goepper though!

The 31-year-old, who is competing at his fourth Winter Olympics, posts a score of 90.00 to kickstart his bid for a first halfpipe medal after perfecting the slopestyle at previous Games.