Mac Forehand wins silver medal for Team USA in Olympic men's Big Air final competition

American freestyle skier Mac Forehand earned a metallic medal for Team USA aft a constrictive nonaccomplishment to Norway’s ​​Tormod Frostad successful the men’s Big Air last connected Tuesday. 

Frostad, competing successful his 2nd Olympics, was the person done astir of the final, but Forehand shockingly took the pb connected the second-to-last leap of the nighttime with a people of 98.25. 

United States skier Mac Forehand competes during the men's freestyle skiing large aerial finals astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Livigno, Italy, connected Feb. 17, 2026. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)

"Oh my God," Forehand exclaimed connected the unrecorded broadcast aft helium landed a chemoreceptor food triple cork 2160. 

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But Frostad, who had been astir cleanable successful his archetypal 2 runs, scoring a 95.25 and a 97, nailed his last tally for a corporate people of 195.50 – conscionable shy of a cleanable people of 200. 

Rounding retired the apical 3 was Austria’s Matej Svancer, who finished with a people of 191.25. 

United States skier Mac Forehand celebrates during the men's freestyle skiing large aerial finals astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Livigno, Italy, connected Feb. 17, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

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Notably retired of podium presumption was defending champion and chap Norwegian Birk Ruud, who uncharacteristically crashed connected 2 of his runs. He finished successful 8th with a people of 118.25. 

Forehand’s metallic medal marks conscionable the 2nd medal for the U.S. successful the freeski and snowboarding parkland events.

United States' Mac Forehand celebrates during the men's freestyle skiing large aerial finals astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Livigno, Italy, connected Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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He besides competed successful the men’s freeski slopestyle past week, wherever helium placed 11th. 

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