He's flying. But it looks like it's a false start - he has landed on top again. He launched at 9:35am saying, "I give it a try" but only flew for a couple of minutes before touching down again. We just heard from Gavin McClurg (USA1) at the back of the race and he has just done the same thing too. One of his supporters told us: "Gavin hiked 5000m vertical yesterday, but none of the flights worked out. It's not quite on here yet, Gavin just took off, slope landed again." It's only 9.45am here in the Alps. That's still early for good thermals – we may need to wait a little longer for the thermal flying to start.