Trick never been done before. Norwegian judge…Silver.

He went bigger than everyone else. You might need help.

@zstarnol He actually did not Doesn’t look like you understand the scoring. You might need help

@zstarnol Imagine being a Norwegian plant.

Sorry you were robbed Mac!

It will never not amaze me how they land BACKWARDS after doing all those flips.

With the snow today too, it makes it infinitely more difficult.

Whole Olympics has been corrupt Eurotrash judges vs superior American competitors.

@CurtisHouck I will not watch sports where placement is determined by humans.

olympic judges any time they can take american gold

Just rename the Winter Olympics to the Norwegian Games.

Norwegian judge:

That "biased" Norwegian judge was one of the two judges who gave 99 to Forehand, but it was crossed out. There are 6 judges; only the average from the 4 between the highest and lowest is awarded. From what I could gather, Frostad’s trick had never been done either in a big competition like the Olympics or X Games, but I may be wrong on that one. They are both insanely difficult regardless, but judges don’t only count rotations but things like finesse, uniqueness, landing, off-axis rotation, style and technicality, body control, height, etc. The point is there are several criteria, and if you nail them all you are awarded and Frostad did. They both did extremely well, and final score showed how close they were. @grok factcheck me

Yea.... like the figure skating team, got robbed.

Anytime judges are involved in usually out. Too many scoring shenanigans.

Norway trying to maintain their gold lead lmao fixed af

Weird how they scored it. Gave the kid with the least big air the big air gold metal. US kid got robbed.

Makes way less sense too if you see the trick that won

I'm ignorant for the most part when it comes to this stuff, but he did a half spin before he got into the air. That's not a problem?

"Butter" is what he did with his skis briefly touching the ground prior to launch. He was off the ground for all rotations, and it doesn't matter where the launch point is. If anything, that makes the case stronger.

I don’t get it. Meanwhile the other guy does something no where close to as difficult and wins the gold.. make it make sense.

Absolute bait. If anything he lost it on his first two jumps, which were excellent, but just not 97-99 level excellent.

Currently live in a communist country

you know when i was watch the last jump i thought to myself “that was cool but no way it was better than the one before” im not too well versed in big air skiing, but the result was odd to a casual

I felt the same way when Gu got silver. The bronze jumper had an INSANELY good jump and should have been Silver

I haven’t been paying much attention but my grandmother who has nothing better to do has watched a ton of Olympics. She told me the judging has been sus and Canada are full of cheats. Made me laugh.

@CurtisHouck No wonder they are the Gold leader.

Oh, no! An American didn’t win, has to be cheating Haha Not surprising from a guy who thinks something that happens 25% of the time is the “hardest thing in sports”.

The norwegian judge gave him a 99 which was slightly higher than the mean

Team USA has been robbed multiple times in judged sports this Olympics. I hate to make it political but it really feels like it is… the other guy did great but how on earth was his last trick scored a 98? It wasn’t close to that

All these jumps look the same. Give me some downhill, slalom, speed skating, hockey, just keep the judges out of it.

The other dude got a 98.5 with something even more impressive. He was not robbed

Judges are mostly corrupt, biased idiots!

I have to say it; they should let AIs judge.

YEAH . . . I was thinking something as DIRTY AS HELL v. @TeamUSA / @Olympics Had same issue with a figure skating judge from France Cost another USA team GOLD There must be a solution to this CRIMINAL BIAS

Emerging take: AI judging across all categories would really level this technical issue since ML is visual. Human judges should only vote on style.

Trying to keep the US gold count below his home country.

Yes : @TeamUSA and Mac Forehand got screwed all top 3 skiers amazing - but the Norwegian judge seems CRIMINAL

I can’t believe this isn’t a bigger story. The other guy kicked up some snow and got gold for it