Canadian riders topped the men's snowboard slopestyle qualifying round Saturday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, with Max Parrot leading his compatriot Mark McMorris into the final, but neither of Japan's young medal hopes was able to make the grade.Big air specialist Parrot put together two high-quality runs, with his second the most impressive, receiving a score of 87.36 from the judges."I'm really happy with my first run," said Parrot. "I just cleaned up a little bit of the tricks. They were the same tricks in my first run, just cleaner. I went bigger the last jump and I think the judges lik…READ FULL ARTICLE
