Slopestyle gold medallist Max Parrot said fellow Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has apologized for saying Parrot only won because of questionable Olympic judging.
Parrot acknowledged to CBC Sports on Friday, and again to The Associated Press on Saturday, that he failed to fully execute a grab on the first jump of the slopestyle course and said he was lucky the judges didn’t see it. He maintains he still had the best run of the day and earned his first Olympic gold.
McMorris finished third, 2.43 points behind Parrot, close enough that he would have taken silver if the judges had dinged