Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot wins gold at Beijing Winter Olympics simply three years after being identified with most cancers

A CANADIAN snowboarder has received a controversial Winter Olympic gold – simply three years after being identified with most cancers.

Max Parrot was identified with Hodgkin lymphoma in December 2018, aged simply 24.

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However in July 2019, the Quebec star introduced he was cancer-free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy throughout six months.

Parrot, now 27, nailed the second run of the slopestyle occasion in Beijing to pip China’s 17-year-old Su Yiming and fellow Canadian Mark McMorris for gold – one higher than the silver he managed at Pyeongchang 2018.

However commentators and viewers have been satisfied he missed a board seize through the successful effort.

Nonetheless, it was not picked up by the judges.

After touchdown gold, Parrot informed BBC Sport: “It feels wonderful.

“A lot glided by in these final 4 years. The final time I used to be on the Olympics, in Pyeongchang, I received a silver medal, after which I needed to undergo most cancers.

“It was a nightmare – it is so onerous to explain what I have been by means of.

“You haven’t any cardio, you don’t have any power, you don’t have any muscle groups.

“To be again out right here, on the Olympics, on a podium once more however with a gold medal, it feels wonderful.”

The gold caps an unimaginable begin to the 12 months for Parrot, who additionally proposed to his girlfriend Kay in January.

Parrot was third after the primary of the three runs, as 2018 champion Crimson Gerard led the way in which.

However the Canadian’s rating of a whopping 90.96 on run No2 was the most effective of the lot.

Parrot added: “I laid down the most effective run of my complete life.

“I am so happy with each characteristic, how I used to be capable of clear them, and I am actually stoked with my rating.”

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