'I had the run of the day': McMorris slams scoring in snowboard event won by fellow Canadian Parrot

One Canadian is defending the integrity of his gold medal while another claims it should belong to him after a judging error in the Olympic men's snowboard slopestyle event.

Regina's Mark McMorris took bronze in the event, while fellow Canadian Max Parrot of Bromont, Que., won gold.

But McMorris now says he perhaps should have been the one standing atop the podium — and not Parrot.

"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 told CBC Sports in a recent interview from China.

Replays after the event showed Parrot missing a grab on one of his jumps, clutching his knees instead of the board. However, he wasn't scored down by judges for the mistake, and eventually took gold by just over two points.

"Everyone that snowboards knows I missed that grab. I'm not hiding from that. It is what it is," Parrot told CBC Sports.

Parrot's winning run garnered 90.96 points. China's Su Yiming was second at 88.70, while McMorris walked away with his third consecutive bronze in the event at 88.53.

WATCH | Side-by-side look at McMorris and Parrot's medal-winning runs:

But Parrot, who said he knew he missed his grab right away, insists his run was still worthy of gold.

"I admire Mark, I admire Su ... I think in the end the only difference is they had multiple small mistakes and I only had one, which was definitely bigger, I agree," Parrot said.

Parrot, 29, disagreed with the assertion that his 28-year-old teammate put down the "run of the day."

He said he wasn't expecting "a really high score like 95 or something" on his winning run, but still thought the