"Dual moguls is new to the Olympics this year. It's head-to-head heats, with skiers facing moguls, gates, and jumps-and being judged, head-to-head, on each element for a combined score. In the men's medal rounds today, Japan's Ikuma Horishima (pictured above, sort of) had a disastrous run in his round-of-16 showdown, and somehow ended up facing the wrong way. That's an odd and very specific sort of adversity to overcome, but he did it."
"So, how did Horishima win this heat, let alone survive to win several more and end up on the podium? To his great luck, the other skier in the heat, the U.S.'s Nick Page, veered off-course for an immediate DQ. Horishima just had to finish to advance, but he made an adventure of it: That's Olympic excellence. Horishima would win two more rounds (crossing the finish line facing forward both times) before losing in the final to Mikaël Kingsbury,"
Dual moguls debuted at the Olympics with head-to-head heats where skiers navigate moguls, gates and jumps and receive combined scores for each element. Japan's Ikuma Horishima had a disastrous round-of-16 run, briefly ending up facing the wrong way and crashing on a final jump. The U.S.'s Nick Page veered off-course and was disqualified, so Horishima needed only to finish to advance and proceeded despite the crash. Horishima won two more rounds, crossing the finish facing forward both times, before losing in the final to Mikaël Kingsbury, who earned Canada's first gold. Horishima said the slopes were not those he excels at.
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