The Japanese coach of a Chinese teenage snowboarder at the centre of a Winter Olympics scoring controversy has appealed to the public to go easy on the judges, after a senior official admitted that there was an error in judgment that cost China a gold.
Chinese fans cried foul after 17-year-old Su Yiming finished second in the men’s snowboard slopestyle event on Feb 7, with Canadian Max Parrot taking gold, despite being the first-ever competitor to pull off an 1800-degree aerial stunt in the Olympics.
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