Olympics information: Mac Forehand wins silver in males’s freestyle snowboarding Massive Air closing

American freestyle skier Mac Forehand earned a silver medal for Crew USA after a slender loss to Norway’s Tormod Frostad within the males’s Massive Air closing on Tuesday.

Frostad, competing in his second Olympics, was the chief via many of the closing, however Forehand shockingly took the lead on the second-to-last soar of the night time with a rating of 98.25.

“Oh my God,” Forehand exclaimed on the stay broadcast after he landed a nostril butter triple cork 2160.

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However Frostad, who had been practically excellent in his first two runs, scoring a 95.25 and a 97, nailed his closing run for a collective rating of 195.50 – simply shy of an ideal rating of 200.

Rounding out the highest three was Austria’s Matej Svancer, who completed with a rating of 191.25.

United States skier Mac Forehand celebrates in the course of the males’s freestyle snowboarding large air finals on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, on Feb. 17, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Picture)

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Notably out of podium place was defending champion and fellow Norwegian Birk Ruud, who uncharacteristically crashed on two of his runs. I completed in eighth with a rating of 118.25.

Forehand’s silver medal marks simply the second medal for the US within the freeski and snowboarding park occasions.

United States’ Mac Forehand celebrates in the course of the males’s freestyle snowboarding large air finals on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, on Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Picture/Lindsey Wasson)

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He additionally competed within the males’s freeski slopestyle final week, the place he positioned eleventh.

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