\u201cNobody can take away from the fact that that was one of the craziest big air finals I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the qualifications were crazy high so I knew something big was going to be coming tonight. Proud of everyone, glad we\u2019re all safe, we\u2019re all healthy. Huge shoutout to Mac, Tormod and Matej, they skied unbelievable. Of course I wanted to ski a little better and be up on the steps with those guys, it\u2019s how it goes and I\u2019m still proud of my efforts. <\/p>\n
The final was delayed because of heavy snow with sleet falling throughout the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cA whirlwind of events going on there. First of all we got delayed, so that was the first step into the journey. Then we had a headwind in training, nobody was clearing the jumps and then it turned into a full-on blizzard, then all of a sudden we had sleet again. It\u2019s part of our sport and things can change and we\u2019ve got to be able to adapt to that. I\u2019m stoked we got to put on a pretty cool show today,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time there\u2019s a big air event someone pulls out something new. The judging system rewards one thing at one point and rewards another thing at another point. It\u2019s always a crazy journey but awesome to be part of it and exploring new options to be trying new things and seeing what pushes the sport the most. That was a really exciting event to see what\u2019s getting rewarded now and we\u2019re going to see a lot more people stepping in that direction,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Harrington, who turns 22 tomorrow, said he will remain in the Olympic village and support his older brother Ben who is competing in the freestyle skiing halfpipe with teammates Fin Melville Ives, Gustav Legnavsky and Luke Harrold starting tomorrow night NZT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNobody can take away from the fact that that was one of the craziest big air finals I\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,16745,74,68,8834,32126,1559,160476,6440,15980,5904,21526,145066,5420,78,194,58138,26019,94586,53399,111,139,69,5106,90,3111,8466,7812,5976,4730,213,6923,23644],"class_list":{"0":"post-288958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2246","9":"tag-adding","10":"tag-after","11":"tag-air","12":"tag-big","13":"tag-bronze","14":"tag-called","15":"tag-craziest","16":"tag-ever","17":"tag-fallen","18":"tag-final","19":"tag-finishing","20":"tag-harrington","21":"tag-hes","22":"tag-in","23":"tag-kiwi","24":"tag-luca","25":"tag-medal","26":"tag-medallist","27":"tag-misses","28":"tag-new-zealand","29":"tag-newzealand","30":"tag-nz","31":"tag-olympics","32":"tag-on","33":"tag-out","34":"tag-second","35":"tag-seen","36":"tag-short","37":"tag-sixth","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-what","40":"tag-winter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288958","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=288958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288958\/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=288958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}