Mark McMorris remembers the day in July 2011 when he found out he could one day be an Olympian.
The Saskatchewan native was at a Canadian steakhouse watching TSN. A report said slopestyle snowboarding had been added to the Olympics for the next Winter Games in Sochi in three years.
“Holy s***,” McMorris, in a phone interview last week, remembered thinking to himself. “I have a really good chance at going because I won this event so many times.”
McMorris was only 17 years old then, but he had already won a World Cup slopestyle contest in January 2010, a month after turning 16.