Freestyle Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's Aerials Qualifications - Phoenix Snow Park - Pyeongchang, South Korea - February 17, 2018 - Anton Kushnir of Belarus reacts. REUTERS/Mike Blake
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has complained to the president of the International Olympic Committee over defending freestyle skiing champion Anton Kushnir's failure to qualify for the men's aerials final, saying the judging was unfair.
Kushnir, competing in his fourth Olympics, was hoping to defend his title and continue Belarus’s dominance of the sport, but on Saturday night the Sochi gold medallist fell just short of the score needed to qualify.
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