After a battle with cancer just over three years ago, Canada’s Max Parrot came back even stronger.
Parrot stood atop the men’s slopestyle podium on Monday, capturing Canada’s first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, one step up from his silver-medal finish at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games prior to being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The 27-year-old snowboarder from Bromont, Que., was diagnosed in December 2018 – forcing him to miss the entire 2018-19 season to undergo chemotherapy. After 12 rounds of treatment, he beat the disease, and by August 2019 he was back riding and winning at the X Games.