Summerhayes misses out on slopestyle medal... after BBC commentators assure viewers that she MUST have won a medal!

Tim Warwood, BBC's snowboarding and freestyle skiing commenatator said: 'Summerhayes, of Team GB, has absolutely ripped the lid off it!'

Unfortunately the judges didn't quite see it in the same way.

She fell in the first of her runs while doing the three and a half switch 1280 trick, scoring just 19.40. And then she managed 70.7 with a better if not entirely clean run next time up. The winner, Dara Howell, of Canada, scored 94.20.

Summerhayes was too distraught to talk to the media immediately afterwards and was comforted in the arms of a Team GB press officer. She went away and collected herself before returning to speak about the day's events.

‘I’m still gutted,' she said. 'Just the same, without the tears. It’s our sport. People fall. Yeah, I’m gutted.

‘On my first run, it was really slushy. I’m not sure what happened when I fell and I was on the back seat and next thing in the snow.

‘Second run, I put my hands down twice and that’s a big thing.'

‘I want to push the sport forward and to do it for myself so I tried some different things in the final. It didn’t come off. I was not put off by the delay. I had no idea  Yuki was injured. She’s one of my best friends and I send her my best wishes.’

Podium: Dara Howell (Centre) won gold, America's Devin Logan silver (left) and Kim Lamarre bronze

While Summerhayes was disappointed to miss out on a medal, she is proud of her achievement in reaching the final.

'I knew that if I put down a good run I would be in with a chance of making the podium but I'm just happy with the way I skied,' she added.

'That's one of the best I've ever skied. I just have to take it as one of those things.'

She had been delayed before her second run by a seemingly serious injury to Canada's Yuki Tsubota.

The BBC had been forced to make respond after over-excited commentating when Jenny Jones won her bronze medal.

'We have never won a medal on snow and those involved have known her for a long time. It's a very passionate sport. It's a young sport and young people don't sit and watch it po-faced, they watch it with great excitement.'

Gold medal: Canada's Dara Howell looks elated after scoring a huge 94.20 score

Summerhayes qualified for the final with plenty in reserve and entered the final with an upbeat declaration. ‘It’s great to be consistent,' she said. 'I've got something planned. I've got something I want to do.

‘I’m fearless. I want to try different stuff and scare myself.’

She did but not in the way intended.

Sheffield born and bred, Summerhayes' very participation in Sochi represented a tremendous comeback from her breaking the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee two years ago, an injury so severe that the first operation could not mend it.

So her doctors decided to use part of her hamstring from her other leg again. It left her with a race against time: she would be off the snow for six months and the Olympics were only nine months away. She cried and cried on hearing the news.

Injured: Canada's Yuki Tsubota suffered a horrendous crash during the slopestyle final

Horrible: She hit a ridge on the course and her head collided with her knee

Crash landing: Canada's Kaya Turski, who is the reigning world champion, failed to qualify for the final