Three years ago, Max Parrot was gearing up for another season at the top of snowboarding when he felt the lump in his neck.
His victory run was a unique ride through the rails buffeted by ice-formed replicas of sections of the Great Wall, followed by three straight triple-corked jumps off the massive kickers. The highlight was the second jump. He approached the kicker from an angle instead of straight on — nobody else tried that — and flipped backward for 1440 degrees of spin, then stomped the landing.The little extras — longer hand grabs, that cool angle — earned him a score of 90.
McMorris went into his final run in fourth place, and when he finished — a big-and-smooth trip except for a tiny bobble at the top on the rails — he threw his board to the ground in a “job-well-done” sort of fashion. McMorris’ run knocked the defending champion, Red Gerard, off the podium completely, extending a miserable day for the United States on the mountain. Gerard’s fourth-place finish came a few hours after Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate and was disqualified from her best event, the giant slalom, on the Alpine course.
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