"The greatest sweep of all time." Gold medal biased judgment? Beauty Legend "Horrible... Nonsense score" to the max [Milan Olympics]

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A master commentator raised the controversy over the biased judgment. While Japan's Mari Fukada (19) won the gold medal in the women's slopestyle at the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, a legendary American commentator who was in charge of local broadcasts was furious at the referee's decision.

Japanese media 'Kokoka' reported on the 19th, "Todd Richards, a famous commentator of 'NBC Sports' in the United States and a snowboard mogul, criticized the game's decision, calling it the 'worst grade that I can't understand.'

In the snowboarding women's slopestyle final at Lvigno Snowpark in Italy, Hukada scored 87.83 points, beating last tournament champion Joey Sadowski Sinot (87.48 points from New Zealand) by just 0.35 points to win the first gold medal in Japanese women's slopestyle history. Murase Kokomo (85.80 points from Japan) won the bronze medal.

The controversy erupted immediately after Sinot's score, who came in last. Sinot succeeded in a series of high-level techniques in the third period. However, the judges gave Sinot a lower score than Hukada and ruled him in second place.

In response, Richaz said during the broadcast, "Honestly, I'm speechless. I have no idea what happened," he said, venting his anger.

Even Richaz said, "I'm not trying to deny Fukada's performance by showcasing Japan's unique meticulous techniques. "Hukada was also excellent," he said, but about Sinot's score, he said, "In a word, it's terrible."

Richarz specifically pointed out that Sinot's overwhelming jump height was not reflected in the score. "With all the players having a hard time speeding up, Sinot jumped twice as high as the others," he said. "It doesn't make sense that such an overwhelming jump didn't affect the score. The score should have been much higher," he said, raising the level of criticism.

Combining local reports such as "NBC Sports," Hookada perfectly succeeded in the Switch Backside 1260, which he made a mistake in the first round in the third period, receiving a perfect score of 10.00 points to secure his victory. On the other hand, Sinot's jump section was powerful, but it was analyzed that the mistake of falling somewhat early in the process of 270 out of the lip slide pretzel had a decisive effect on the score calculation.

Despite the decision controversy, Sinot said after the game, "Scores don't matter. We are all just happy to enjoy snowboarding," he said. Sinot, already known as Living Legend, won his fifth Olympic medal in his career with this silver medal, making him the largest medal holder in snowboarding history.

At this year's event, Japanese snowboarders took to the podium in all six detailed events, including the women's slopestyle, sweeping nine medals (four gold medals), half of the total 18 medals. Yoo Seung-eun of Korea finished the competition in 12th place with a final score of 34.18.

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