Snowboarder Max Parrot won an Winter Olympic gold medal in Beijing on Monday, just over three years after the Canadian was diagnosed with cancer
Having won silver in the men's slopestyle event at PyeongChang four years ago, the 27-year-old went one better at the Genting Snow Park to secure his first ever Olympic gold medal.His best score of 90.96 was enough to beat Chinese 17-year-old Su Yiming's best attempt of 88.70, and compatriot Mark McMorris' bronze medal performance made it two Canadians on the podium.
This attitude underpinned what Parrot described as"the biggest run" of his career, the Canadian landing two consecutive triples on his second attempt to edge past Su. "I kept telling everyone I want to grab a gold. And to have it finally at my third Olympics feels really amazing," Parrot said."This is so incredibly special, especially with the run I did today. I've never done two triples in a row in a run, with that difficulty as well, and everything was so clean.
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