THE curtain came down on Jenna McCorkell’s Sochi 2014 campaign and, it would seem, her Olympic career after the Briton’s short programme effort proved not quite enough to see her through to the women’s free skate, with her finishing one place and 0.22 points short of the cut.

Fifth up of 30 competitors at the Iceberg Skating Palace, McCorkell produced a performance that drew a score of 48.34 points – higher than the mark awarded to two of those who had been on before her and the very next skater.

It also bettered the score awarded to two further athletes, but otherwise, the 27- year-old from Northern Ireland continued to slip down the standings and eventually finished in 25th, below the top-24 qualification cut-off point.

McCorkell looks set to call time on a career in which she has accumulated 11 British titles.

She will look back on this competition with a degree of disappointment at not securing the chance to perform her free routine, but McCorkell insisted she was pleased with her display, feeling satisfied that the demons of her Olympic debut at Vancouver 2010, where she fell during her short programme and finished 29th, had continued to be exorcised.

She said: ‘‘I skated the best I could and I performed all the elements, so I’m not disappointed.

‘‘I think the points were a little bit affected just by the second mark, but I had a feeling they would be because I had a pretty bad draw, starting in the first group.

‘‘The triple toe wasn’t as perfect as it possibly could have been, but it was there, it was done – I didn’t fall. I did my best, so I was pleased with it.’’ She added: ‘‘I have proved it twice now, so that Vancouver cloud can go away and leave me alone!”