Key takeaways:
- Recently coined Olympic winner ends comeback from 2018 cancer diagnosis.
- Canada’s Max Parrot responds after his gold medal-winning run during the men’s snowboard slopestyle final on Monday at the Beijing Olympics.
McMorris wins Bronze for his country:
Max Parrot’s response to cancer is made.
On Monday, the Canadian won gold in snowboard slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics, boosting from the silver he triumphed at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
Fellow Canadian Mark McMorris achieved Bronze in the contest for the third straight time, while China’s Su Yiming grabbed silver. Parrot of Bromont, Que., in between podiums, was interpreted with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, causing him to skip the whole 2018-19 season.
Over three years after, he’s selected to stand atop the Olympic podium with Canada’s only gold medal of these Beijing Games.
“It only shows how anything is achievable. Three years ago, I was lying down in a hospital bed with no power, muscles, or cardio. And today, I’m an Olympic gold winner, and I did the most extensive run of my life, ” Parrot described CBC Sports after the event. Source – cbc.ca
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Parrot expressed his perspective on sports and life transformed post-cancer at a press conference ahead of the Olympics.
“Every time I step on my snowboard, I grin twice as much as before, and it just transplanted into my exercise,” he stated. Source – cbc.ca
It’s all smiles now after the 29-year-old managed his first Olympic career title, adding to an outstanding career that also has eight X Games gold awards.
Parrot succeeded on the power of his second run, on which he achieved 90.96 points. The Canadian stamped a front side 1620 on the final jump and instantly began clapping on his path down, knowing his run should be adequate to land on the podium.
It vaulted him to the top. But as the fourth rider, Parrot had to stay for eight more athletes to come with their two runs, and all 12 in the final had one final attempt to broadcast a medal-worthy score in their third run.
