Winter Olympics: Magic Monday becomes missed-medal Monday for Team GB

What could have been a memorable Monday for Team GB at the Winter Olympics instead became a day of near misses, with British athletes missing out on medals in three different events.

The day began with disappointment for freestyle skier Kirsty Muir in the women's slopestyle final. Slopestyle sees athletes perform a series of jumps and tricks on a course filled with rails and ramps, with judges awarding points for difficulty, execution and style.

Muir, finished fourth with a score of 76.05, missing out on bronze by just 0.41 points behind Canada's Megan Oldham. After falling on her first run and sitting sixth after her second, Muir produced a strong final performance but was left narrowly short. "I put it out there on every run," she told BBC Sport. "I struggled to accept how close it was, but I know I've got more in me,"she said.

Muir is one of Team GB's best medal hopes at the Milan-Cortina Games, and has another shot at the podium when she competes in the big air starting on Saturday.

"I just need to have a moment to process. I don't want to dwell on it too much," she said.

The frustration continued later in the day in women's snowboard big air, an event where riders launch from a single large jump and perform their most difficult tricks. Nineteen-year-old Mia Brookes also finished fourth after coming close to a medal-winning run.

She attempted a backside 1620 – a trick involving four and a half spins – but over-rotated on landing and fell. "That was a gold," said Ed Leigh on BBC Sport commentary. "She so nearly held on to it. It would have been a world first in competition."

Brookes ended with a score of 159.50 from her first two runs. "It was insane. Obviously I'm bummed I couldn't land that last trick," she later told BBC Sport. "I had too much spin on it, which I didn't think I would."

Brookes says she is "pretty excited" for another shot at a medal in the slopestyle, which starts with qualifying on 16 February.

Between those two fourth-place finishes came another blow, this time on the ice. In mixed doubles curling, where teams of one man and one woman take turns sliding stones towards a target, Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds lost 9-3 to Sweden in the semi-finals.

A win would have guaranteed at least a silver medal, but defeat means they must now play Italy for bronze. "We're really gutted," Mouat told BBC Sport. "They were the better team today." Dodds added: "We don't want this to affect our chances of a medal… and we'll come out firing tomorrow [Tuesday]."