Winter Olympics: Team GB freestyle skier Izzy Atkin withdraws from slopestyle
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Izzy Atkin had already withdrawn from big air at the Winter Olympics
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Team GB freestyle skier Izzy Atkin has withdrawn from the slopestyle competition, which is scheduled to start on Sunday.
Atkin won Britain's first ever Olympic skiing medal when she took slopestyle bronze in Pyeongchang in 2018.
The 23-year-old also took took silver in the slopestyle at the 2021 X Games but broke her pelvis at the Dew Tour in Colorado in December.
She had already pulled out of the big air competition in Beijing.
Atkin had only arrived in China on Thursday, having stayed in the United States, where she is based, for extra rehabilitation and practice before the Games.
She had expressed optimism over her ability to compete at the Winter Olympics less than a week ago in a post on Instagram., external
But it has been deemed she is not fit enough to compete in slopestyle, with the top 12 from Sunday's qualification advancing to the finals on Monday.
Katie Summerhayes and Kirsty Muir, who finished fifth in big air, will compete for Team GB, while Atkin's younger sister, Zoe, will make her Olympic debut in the ski halfpipe on 17-18 February.
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