This Backward Guy Medaled

Feb 15, 2026 - 21:15
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This Backward Guy Medaled

Dual moguls is new to the Olympics this year. It's head-to-head heats, with skiers facing moguls, gates, and jumps—and being judged, head-to-head, on each element for a combined score. In the men's medal rounds today, Japan's Ikuma Horishima (pictured above, sort of) had a disastrous run in his round-of-16 showdown, and somehow ended up facing the wrong way. That's an odd and very specific sort of adversity to overcome, but he did it.

Here he is soaring fully out of control on his final jump:

Japan's Ikuma Horishima in action during the Men's Freestyle Skiing Dual Moguls 1/8 final at the Livigno Aerials & Moguls Park, on day nine of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy. Picture date: Sunday February 15, 2026. (Photo by David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images)

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