U.S.-born skier Elizabeth Swaney qualified for the Hungary Olympic team by way of a loophole that landed her in the women’s halfpipe competition.

The 33-year-old Harvard graduate proceeded to put on a mesmerizingly bad halfpipe run that included one basic trick, almost no air and a last-place finish.

There were times during Swaney’s run where she didn’t even clear the top of the halfpipe. The entire run seemed more like a parody than an actual Olympic competition. Her most advanced trick was a simple 180-degree turn.

Her path to Olympics was quite simple: She qualified because there weren’t enough competitors to fill a 30-skier field. Via USA TODAY Sports:

International Ski Federation halfpipe and slopestyle judge Steele Spence told The Denver Post that Swaney reached the Olympics thanks in large part to a shortage of competitors and her consistency in attending events. The 33-year-old has regularly registered top-30 finishes in World Cup events simply because there weren’t 30 competitors in the field.

Despite looking like a novice skier, Swaney said she had spent years training for the event. She can always say she competed in the Olympics, which is still cool — even if she did work the system to get there. Swaney finished 13th out of 15 skiers in a World Cup event in China.

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