Frenchman Matias Roche produced the best score of the night with a 95.25 on his first attempt but couldn\u2019t back it up again, finishing in sixth.<\/p>\n
Harrington is the third New Zealander to book a spot in a final today, after snowboarders Dane Menzies and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott topped their respective qualifying sessions in the slopestyle.<\/p>\n
Harrington was disappointed with the score on his opening jump \u2013 a double misty pullback.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is crazier than some of our biggest finals events that we\u2019ve had in big air, big ups to everyone,\u201d he told Sky Sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt really good. Came in with a plan and executed the plan and even got a bonus hit in the end. I\u2019ve been working really hard on that first trick I put down tonight and it didn\u2019t get rewarded the way I wanted it to. It\u2019s been a big process and one of the hardest tricks I\u2019ve ever worked through. That was a bit of a shame to see but it\u2019s hard to compete against all these triple 19s and nosebutters … all sorts of stuff. It\u2019s just such a pleasure to be part of this event and to be pushing the scores that we are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frenchman Matias Roche produced the best score of the night with a 95.25 on his first attempt but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9331,2246,68094,74,68,8834,32126,55893,5904,2082,115957,145066,29955,194,58138,26019,94586,111,139,69,5106,49639,213,23644],"class_list":["post-286003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chance","tag-2246","tag-advancing","tag-after","tag-air","tag-big","tag-bronze","tag-fifth","tag-final","tag-for","tag-freeski","tag-harrington","tag-haul","tag-kiwi","tag-luca","tag-medal","tag-medallist","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympics","tag-qualifies","tag-sports","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}