Winter Olympics - Max Parrot wins controversial slopestyle gold – What exactly happened in the event?

On Monday morning Canadian star Max Parrot won slopestyle gold, a little over three years after a diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma. However there was controversy after the event as replays showed Parrot had missed a grab during his routine. Ad/> Plenty on social media vented their frustration that was missed, with many believing that had it been scored “correctly” it might have resulted in a different winner.

/> Beijing 2022'Absolutely incredible' — Morgan analyses cancer-beating Parrot's golden run4 HOURS AGO There’s a lot to unpack here so let’s try and break it down. What exactly did Parrot miss? So during the routine one of Parrot’s move calls for him to grab the board while he’s rotating through the air. However he missed the board and still shots showed that his hand was an inch or so away from the board.

So why wasn’t he marked down? Okay so this is really important. Snowboarding is not like say, figure skating. In figure skating there is scoring happening during the routine and then after the routine the judges get the chance to go back and check they scored everything correctly.

That is not the case in snowboarding. The judges have 20-30 seconds max at the end of run and as such by the time they get to see replays the scores have already been made official. This is a flaw within the set-up of snowboarding and something the governing bodies really need to look at.

Expert analysis – Would it have made a difference? So the real question is whether or not the change in judgement would have actually impacted the overall score. As far as former Team GB Olympic snowboarder Billy Morgan is concerned, the different would not have been meaningful. “I think it might have made a bit of difference to the score but in the end