Olympic wake-up call: McMorris, Toutant and Parrot soar into slopestyle final

Mark McMorris says he'll pull out all his toughest tricks in his bid for a second Olympic slopestyle medal.

The 28-year-old from Regina led a trio of Canadian snowboarders into the slopestyle final at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games on Sunday.

The 2018 Olympic bronze medallist posted the the second-highest score of the day, as Sébastien Toutant qualified in seventh, and Max Parrot in 10th after their two runs.

"To be given a berth into tomorrow's final and at least have a shot at a medal, that's most important," McMorris said.

"Yeah, just trying to put it all together from top to bottom isn't an easy task."

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McMorris is coming off an X Games gold medal in slopestyle only two weeks ago, and will look to return to the podium in the slopestyle final, which you can watch live on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app, and CBC Gem on Sunday beginning at 11:10 p.m. ET.

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For the first time since 2002, there will not be a Canadian on the women's Olympic moguls podium.

Chloé Dufour-Lapointe — the 2014 Olympic silver medallist — was the top Canadian, finishing in ninth place with a score of 72.96 in the second round of the three-round final.

Sofiane Gagnon, a 22-year-old Olympic rookie from Whistler, B.C., had made it into the second round, but fell on her run and did not finish.

Justine Dufour-Lapointe , Chloe's sister, did not advance to the second round, crashing in her run. Although the two-time Olympic medallist did not technically finish, she called for another pole to finish her run down the hill.

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"Life is not always so easy. But I just want to make sure everyone at home knows that I never gave up," an emotional Justine Dufour-Lapointe said after her run.