Ireland snowboarder Seamus O'Connor has said that he was pleased to have reached the semi-finals of the half-pipe event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The 16-year-old, who came ninth in the semi-finals with a score of 70.25 in his second run on Tuesday, could have qualified for the final had he been able to pull off his final trick.
"It was my hope that, if I had landed that run, I could have made it [to the final]," the Belfast Telegraph quotes him as saying.
"Originally, my goal was to make it to the semi-finals and I got in there. Once I was here, I was kind of wanting more, wanting to land my run, which I was hoping would put me through to the final.
"Just that I made it here is great, but it would have been nice to pass through again."
Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov won gold in the event.
