“ALL ABOUT LOVE”
Su’s silver in the slopestyle had been contentious, with many experts saying that he should have been awarded gold ahead of Parrot.
Iztok Sumatic, the head judge in Beijing, subsequently told the snowboarding magazine Whitelines that they made a mistake in the scoring of Parrot.
Su put all that behind him on Tuesday, and said that he had been motivated by competing on home snow and by his passion for the sport.
“I wanted to try my best for this,” he said.
“The most important thing though is all about love. Snowboarding is not just about competition.”
In a touching moment, Su pointed at his parents when he was standing on the podium.
“I haven’t seen my parents for the past seven months because I went to Europe for training and to many places for competitions,” he said, attending a press conference with the Chinese flag proudly wrapped around his shoulders.
“This moment is so special for me and also my family.”
Su even managed – for a time at least – to upstage California-born Gu, his China team-mate and the unofficial face of the Games.
The 18-year-old Gu, who represented the United States before switching to the country of her mother’s birth in 2019, also now has one gold and one silver after she finished second in the women’s freestyle skiing slopestyle earlier in the day.
The home nation, who have little in the way of tradition when it comes to winter sports, have now won six golds in Beijing.
Four years ago at the Pyeongchang Games, before Gu and Su came on the scene, they took home only one gold.
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