USA skiier Nick Page involved in chaotic Olympic duals moguls run with opponent finishing race backwards

The Winter Games have arguably crazier events than the Summer Games. While most of the summer Olympic sports are competed on an even playing field, many of the winter events concern flying downhill on skis at high speed. 

Moguls takes that downhill flight at max speed and adds little bumps in the slope that competitors have to navigate. Hitting a mogul at the wrong angle can send you careening off to the side, while others can help save you from a fall by bumping you back up like a snow trampoline. 

Both of these instances happened in a wild duals moguls run between American Nick Page and Japanese competitor Ikuma Horishima. Page hit a mogul and shot off to the very edge of the slope, while Horishima happened to use a mogul to get back on his skis after a fall. Horishima's resulted in a highlight reel finish where the skier actually finished the event facing the wrong direction.

Here is more on Page's duals moguls run, where his opponent finished backwards. 

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Nick Page-Ikuma Horishima Olympic duals moguls race

Page and Horishima were racing moguls together on Sunday. Moguls can already be chaotic with all of the bumps down the slope and how they can impact the path of skis. 

Page saw this first hand as he took one of the moguls too far to the right and hit the edge of the course, and had to straighten up. Horishima fared better for most of the slope, but he took a bad angle off of the jump toward the bottom of the slope. He landed and ended up crashing, but used the next mogul to bounce right back up....except backwards. 

Horishima went with it and actually finished the race going backwards over the finish line in a wild ending. 

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Why was Nick Page disqualified?

While Horishima pulled off some impressive heroics, Page didn't have as good a run. It looked like he finished right on the heels of Horishima, but Page's official run designation went down as a DNF, meaning that he was disqualified.

When Page took that steep right turn into the side of the course early in the run, it was determined that he actually went out of bounds, so he was disqualified. 

Olympic men's duals moguls results

Here are the men's duals moguls final results.