Fans of Chinese snowboard star Su Yiming aren’t the only people raising concerns about the judging for Canadian Max Parrot’s gold-medal Olympic slopestyle performance.
Fellow Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, who won bronze, told CBC he felt he had the run of the day.
“Obviously would have been nice to have a different shade of medal. But knowing that I kind of had the run of the day and one of the best rounds of my life and the whole industry knows what happened — pretty, pretty crazy,” McMorris said.
McMorris’ comments came after Su’s coach asked fans to stop criticizing judges, Bloomberg reports.
Yasuhiro Sato posted a letter on social networking site Weibo asking fans to stop criticizing judges, saying that he and Su respect the results that saw the athlete from the host country finish second.
Replays showed a double-knee grab by Parrot, but it was not noticed by judges, who did not ask for a replay because they believed the run looked clean, Iztok Sumatic, the head judge for the event in Beijing, said in an interview with snowboarding site Whitelines.
Sumatic said scores would have been different had judges noticed the mistake, but he defended their work.
“After this is all over, I’m definitely going to speak my mind on what I think could improve, and what could help us. But these are the facts: We judged what we saw, this is live scoring, and we judged from a specific media angle that we were given,” he said.
Parrot acknowledged the miscue in an interview with CBC.
“Everyone that snowboards knows I missed that grab. I’m not hiding from that. It is what it is,” he said.
Parrot finished with 90.96 points, Su had 88.70 and McMorris was at 88.53.
Mark McMorris also felt judges didn’t have a good view of the snowboarders, saying “the (video) feed they had was garbage.”
There have been several judging controversies in Beijing, including disqualification for ski jumping outfits for favoured Germany in a mixed team event in which Canada won bronze.
South Korea also has complained about judging in short-track speed-skating.
Parrot’s win is Canada’s only gold through seven days of competition at the Games.
All three slopestyle medallists will compete in the big air event next Monday and Tuesday.
Canadian gold medallist Parrot’s Olympic win questioned by McMorris, Chinese fans
Source: Pinas Ko Mahal
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