Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot has captured the country’s first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
DOUBLE PODIUM FOR #TEAMCANADA
Max Parrot wins his first Olympic gold, while Mark McMorris wins bronze in snowboard slopestyle
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— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 7, 2022
Parrot, from Bromont, Que., won the men’s slopestyle event on Monday, jumping up from his silver-medal showing at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
Regina’s Mark McMorris won bronze, matching his result from the ’18 Olympics. China’s Su Yiming took silver.
The 27-year-old Parrot beat cancer after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in late 2018. That earned him the Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award in 2021.
Canada now has four medals — one gold, one silver, two bronze — at the Beijing Games.
More to come.
