Mark McMorris laid down a run with two triple corks — something so on the edge of this sport that it was done for the first time just three weeks ago — and he was beaten by someone who only did doubles.
Yahoo's Jeff Passan did a story on how the sport is judged. Here are the basics:
Riders are graded on a 1 to 100 scale based on entirely on "overall impression."
The judges are allowed to talk to each other, and the head judge can suggest changes.
The official judging criteria urges judges to consider difficulty, amplitude, execution, variety, progression, and combinations. But there are no objective metrics for those factors. There's no strict definition for which tricks are more difficult than others, or by how much. The official judges manual says "difficulty is very individual" to each rider.
The judging is being conducted by a skiing federation, the FIS, not by snowboarders.
http://www.businessinsider.com/olympic-slopestyle-judging-system-2014-2
The judging is being conducted by a skiing federation, the FIS, not by snowboarders.
Thank god for helmets with Sarka Pancochova's fall the other day. Saved her life by spreading the impact to crack the helmet rather than her head. She reportedly blacked out for a few seconds. According to my Czech friend, she felt sick during an interview and had to leave it early, but is fine now.