Winter Olympics: Max Parrot wins snowboard slopestyle gold three years after cancer diagnosis

Canada's Max Parrot won Olympic snowboard slopestyle gold with the «best run of his life» — three years after being diagnosed with cancer.

His second-run score of 90.96 landed him the title, with China's 17-year-old Su Yiming taking silver and Canadian Mark McMorris securing the bronze.

Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in late 2018, but in July 2019 announced he was cancer-free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy.

«It feels amazing, he told BBC Sport.

»So much went by in those last four years. The last time I was at the Olympics, in Pyeongchang, I got a silver medal, and then I had to go through cancer, it was a nightmare, it's so hard to describe what I've been through.

«You have no cardio, you have no energy, you have no muscles. To be back out here, at the Olympics, on a podium again but with a gold medal, it feels amazing.»