FOUR years ago Katie Ormerod sat at home in Brighouse watching on the television as Jenny Jones made history with a snowboard bronze for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics.

Then aged just 16, Ormerod had shrugged off her own disappointment at failing to make the squad to cheer on her team-mate – and vowed that by PyeongChang 2018 she would be ready to make a big impression of her own.

Such has been the impressive nature of her trajectory since then that Ormerod, now 20 and with World Cup and X Games podiums behind her, is considered one of the nation's best medal chances with the next Winter Games just 100 days away.

Not only that but Ormerod, who will be competing in both slopestyle and the new Big Air disciplines in South Korea, stands a good chance of becoming the first Briton to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics.

Ormerod said: "I was really gutted to miss out on the team four years ago, because it has always been my dream to compete at a Winter Olympics – but looking back, it could have been a blessing in disguise.

"I was very inexperienced and I'm not sure I would have been able to do myself justice. Since then I've worked hard to get the experience and I feel so much more confident and ready to make my Olympic debut in style."

Part of a burgeoning British freestyle squad which has claimed multiple medals since Sochi, Ormerod is hardly unaccustomed to making history.

Six years ago she became the youngest girl to land a double backflip on a snowboard and also the first female to land a backside double cork 180.

Ormerod clinched gold at the Big Air World Cup in Moscow earlier this year, as well as two silvers in Germany and South Korea, and also has a World Cup medal in slopestyle to her name, raising tentative hopes of an incredible double.

"I guess there is quite a lot of expectation now because I've got a few World Cup podiums," she said.

"But I'm just going to use that as a positive thing and go to PyeongChang in the right frame of mind that I can challenge for medals.

"Big Air has only just been introduced to the Olympics and it's not that different – whereas in slopestyle you need different tricks for at least four of your jumps, in Big Air it's all about that one big jump you have to hit.

"But there is definitely no shortage of confidence from anyone in the GB squad. Since Jenny got her medal in Sochi, so many more people have found out about slopestyle and Big Air and the increased exposure has been a really positive thing.

"That has all helped make my last two seasons the best two yet. Things are getting better and better at the moment and I feel like a completely different person to the one who was gutted to miss out on Sochi four years ago."