“It was the first time I ever put my snowboard in the closet. I felt like a lion in a cage.” Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot took home the Olympic gold medal in men’s slopestyle on Monday, just over three years since he was diagnosed with cancer.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Max Parrot was gearing up for another season at the top of snowboarding when he felt the lump in his neck.On Monday, the 27-year-old Canadian slopestyler’s ride back to the top ended with an Olympic gold medal — capping the sort of stirring comeback that reminds us why weA few weeks after first feeling the lump — and 10 months after finishing second at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics — Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
“I thought, the dream just came through and here I am on the podium with my idols,” Su said. “I can’t believe this just happened.” Two minutes passed and the score came up, and McMorris jammed the board into the ground, this time more irked than happy. He was on the podium, but not where he thought he’d be.
“There’s nothing you can really complain about and I don’t want to be a judge or anything,” Gerard said. “There were a lot of landed runs out there, and it’s hard. But yeah, I would’ve liked to have been up there for sure.”“Max beat cancer,” McMorris said, “and it’s pretty sick to see him do well. And he didn’t come to any slopestyle this year. It’s not his strong suit. Big air is, and he just won slopestyle today.
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