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Warren Shouldice of Canada reacts after performing the first jump of Men's Aerials final at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games at Sauze d'Oulx, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) |
TURIN, Italy - Calgarians Kyle Nissen and Warren Shouldice were unable to recover from poor first jumps as both missed the podium in this afternoon's men's aerials in Sauze d'Oulx.
Though both nailed their second jumps, the Nos. 1 and 3-ranked aerialists respectively on the World Cup circuit were unable to make up ground conceded in the first round.
Nissen, with a combined score of 244.91, was fifth, while Shouldice was sixth with 239.70.
China's Xiaopeng Han won gold with a score of 250.77, Belarus' Dmitri Dashinski (248.68) won silver, while Russia's Vladimir Lebedev (246.76) was third to take the bronze.
Nissen, 26, topped the World Cup points standings coming into the Olympics, but though he has been on the podium five times in eight events, only one is a win, that coming in Mont Gabriel, Que.
Shouldice, 22, is third in World Cup and has a win, a second and third.
After scoring just 114.38 with his first jump, a back/full-double-full-full, that left him sitting in eighth, Nissen came back strong with his second, scoring 130.53 with a back-full-double-full-full that temporarily put him in top spot.
Shouldice sat sixth after the first jump with a score of 123.45 on his back-full-double-full-full. But he was shaky on his landing on the second, a back-lay-triple-full-full that had the highest degree of difficulty and scored just 116.25.
