THE Sochi Winter Olympics provided one of the most joyous sporting spectacles of recent years when Jenny Jones won a snowboard slopestyle bronze.

But there was a sour footnote — 300 moanalots complained to the BBC because her friends in the commentary box went bananas.

Some people have nothing better to do with their time than whinge.

They’ll never offer congratulations if something good happens, but, the minute the slightest thing annoys them, they’re off and bleating.

Jenny’s acrobatics were amazing, and her unexpected, emotional re-union with her parents on live TV — handled very well by interviewer Sir Matthew Pinsent — had tears flowing around the country.

You would need to have had a heart of stone not to be moved by it all. Perhaps the commentators, including Jenny’s team-mate Aimee Fuller, came out with some remarks they shouldn’t have in the heat of the moment, but this was electrifying TV. The excitement was infectious, so it was hardly surprising they were over-zealous.

Meanwhile, Jenny’s stunning success has revived hopes that Scottish skier Alain Baxter might yet see a return of the bronze medal he won 12 years ago at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

It was wrongly taken off him after he ‘failed’ a drugs test — but this mistaken result was found to have been caused by him using an ordinary inhaler available in any pharmacy.

He won the medal fairly and squarely, and should get it back.