McMorris apologizes to Canadian teammate Parrot for questioning his slopestyle victory

Slopestyle gold medallist Max Parrot said fellow Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has apologized for saying Parrot only won because of questionable Olympic judging.

McMorris finished third, 2.43 points behind Parrot, close enough that he would have taken silver if the judges had dinged Parrot for the missed grab. McMorris told CBC Sports on Friday he deserved to beat Parrot and Chinese silver medallist Su Yiming.

"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.

Parrot said there were no hard feelings over McMorris' comments.

"He actually came to me earlier today and he apologized for his non-sportsmanship," Parrot said. "I told him no worries."

WATCH | McMorris' and Parrot's runs, side by side:

McMorris declined to be interviewed Saturday.

Parrot and McMorris are set for another showdown Monday, when qualifying begins for big air. The event will be scored by the same nine-judge panel that was immediately criticized at Genting Snow Park on Monday after broadcast replays clearly showed Parrot grabbing his knee instead of his board.

Parrot said the judging process needs an adjustment. He advocated for judges to have more access to slow-motion replays and bemoaned that panels are rushed into decisions because of time constraints created by television broadcasts.

"They probably missed a lot of other things as well on other riders' runs that day," Parrot said. "But you know, I understand the focus is on me, as I've won."

Parrot got his gold about three years after beating cancer, but the feel-good story was quickly undercut by the