Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

I've climbed a bit higher up the pipe tonight. It's tricky to gauge, but I reckon I'm about halfway up.

You can't see this side of the pipe, so I tend to judge whether a skier is coming by the position of the spider cam. And then, all of a sudden, a skier is flying through the air above you. Honestly, it's incredible.

It's not for everyone, though.

A kid next to me is shovelling snow into a plastic bag.

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Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

The scoreboard is not worth looking at.

But here it is anyway...

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We've had three ends in the men's bronze medal match between Norway and Switzerland and it's the Swiss that have a 4-0 lead.

There is still plenty of time for Norway to get back into this and they have the hammer in the fourth end.

Remember, there are 10 ends so we're not even at the halfway stage yet.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

11 skiers down, and two of them have got landed runs!

There is no way it is staying this way. Everyone knows there is a gold medal, and they can almost touch it.

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The highest individual-run score will win the gold medal here. These skiers only have to get it right once.

Second-best qualifier Nick Goepper of the USA can't get through a clean run and Brendan Mackay of Canada, who topped the standings this morning, can't either.

Andrew Longino (76.50) of Canada lead with New Zealand's Ben Harrington (61.25) second.

Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

The pressure of this Olympic final is really showing now.

It is literally anybody's final.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

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The GROAN from the crowd when Hunter Hess missed that last landing. Could you hear it back in the UK?

The height he was reaching there. Wow.

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We're heading towards the best qualifiers from this morning.

Hunter Hess goes BIG but can't complete a clean run.

Fellow American Alex Ferreira, who has won silver and bronze in this event at the past two Winter Olympics, can't break the 50-point barrier with his first run.

Henry Sildaru of Estonia falls too.

Ed and Tim on commentary say the format - with three runs rather than two in many other events - could mean some of the competitors are taking a few more risks in this first run. Hence some of the errors we're seeing.

Are you ready for the second heat of the two-woman bobsleigh?

Team GB will be the sixth duo to take to the track as it will go in the reverse order of the final standings from heat one.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

I reckon Andrew Longino will have interrupted the local Starlink service around here. That was so high!

Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

Oh my word, that is absolutely massive. Andrew Longino is collecting high fives!

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Goodness me, Canada's Dylan Marineau is almost up in space with his early tricks! 5.9m above the pipe, according to the graphics on screen.

He can't complete a clean run, slipping halfway through, but that's just a sighter of what he's capable of.

Fellow Canadian Andrew Longino is next and moves into the lead with 76.50.

Earlier, Ben Lynch - the first Irish skier to qualify for an Olympic freeski final - scored 39.75.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

Gus Kenworthy has more than enough experience to put that run into the rearview mirror.

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Ah, Gus Kenworthy falls early in run one. He's fine, though.

Still two more chances to put down a big score.

Jenny Jones
Olympic bronze medallist snowboarder on BBC Two

Gus Kenworthy had a great qualifying session. It was very tactical, he put down enough tricks, and he put some switch tricks in there which gave him a great score.

And here's Gus...

It was a tough qualifying this morning for New Zealand as one of the gold medal favourites Fin Melville Ives was hurt during his second run and had to be carried away on a stretcher.

His compatriot, Ben Harrington, is the first man to go in the final and scores 61.25.

A banker run that might allow him to really let loose in runs two and three.

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Team GB's Gus Kenworthy finished ninth in men's freeski halfpipe qualifying this morning to reach tonight's final.

The 34-year-old had retired after the 2022 Games - so why did he change his mind?

"I called it quits partly because I'd been doing it a long time and I had burnout and was over it, but I was also having some bad head injuries and so it made it easier to walk away," he said.

"Months after when those symptoms started to subside and I started to feel myself again, I started wondering it wasn't the way I wanted it to finish.

"I kept pushing that feeling away, and finally I was at a point where I was like 'OK, well if you're having that feeling, it's now or never, and I didn't want to live to regret it and wonder 'what if'.

"I decided to just give it a push and make it go, and try to get there. It's been pretty tough, because I didnt't have any funding, I wasn't on any national team in order to get assistance, so it's been totally self-funded, myself, my coach, both of our travel, training camps, lift tickets, insurance, all of it, food, lodgings.

"I struggled deciding if it was the right thing to do, but ultimately, money comes and goes, this opportunity won't."

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Great Britain have Gus Kenworthy, who has returned to the sport after retiring after Beijing, in the men's freeski halfpipe final.

Kenworthy was born in Chelmsford but grew up in the United States and won silver in the ski slopestyle at the Sochi 2014 Games, before switching allegiance to Team GB in 2019.

Before the Games the 34-year-old said he had received death threats after posting a graphic message on Instagram about the United States' Immigration and Customs Enforcement organisation - commonly known as ICE - sharing an image in which 'ICE' was preceded by an expletive.

He is the oldest competitor in the event and qualified in ninth this morning.

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A little update to bring you ahead of the men's freeski halfpipe final.

Lee Seung-hun of South Korea has injured himself in training and has been taken away on a stretcher so he will no longer be taking part.

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We've got the men's freeski halfpipe final coming up from 18:30 GMT, with GB's Gus Kenworthy among those in action.

Commentary will once again come from Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood and the duo want your questions!

It might be about the name of the tricks, their highlights from Milan-Cortina so far or what Olympic sport they'd both fancy trying out.

Get your questions in using the 'Get Involved' button on this page and the duo will do their best to answer some of them on air.