Max Parrot

Canadian snowboarder who won Olympic slopestyle gold at Beijing 2022 just three years after beating Hodgkin's lymphoma, in one of the sport's most celebrated comeback stories.

In December 2018, Max Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy; less than four years later, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, he won slopestyle gold with three consecutive triple corks — two of them back-to-back for the first time in competition history. He began skiing at three and discovered snowboarding at nine, quickly progressing into one of the discipline's most technically innovative riders - in 2013 he landed the first backside triple cork ever seen in an X Games slopestyle event, and in 2015 he performed the first-ever cab quadruple underflip 1620. Parrot won silver in slopestyle at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics behind American teenager Red Gerard. Just ten months later, in December 2018, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy over six months, describing the experience as leaving him with 'no more muscles, no more energy, no more cardio.' He announced he had beaten the cancer in July 2019 and returned to competition, winning X Games gold that year. At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, competing three years after his diagnosis, Parrot delivered what he called the hardest run of his career - three consecutive triple corks, including two in a row for the first time - to score 90.96 and win Olympic gold, upgrading his Pyeongchang silver and completing one of snowboarding's most emotional comeback stories. His teammate Mark McMorris took bronze in the same event. Parrot documented his cancer battle in the film 'Max - Life as a Gold Medal' and became a spokesperson for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

Explosive, technically pioneering slopestyle and big air rider known for consecutive triple cork combinations and remarkable resilience

Remembered for one of the most emotional comeback stories in Winter Olympics history, and as one of the most technically progressive slopestyle and big air riders of his generation

• 2022 Olympic Gold Medalist, Slopestyle
• 2018 Olympic Silver Medalist, Slopestyle
• 6x Winter X Games Gold Medalist
• First to land a backside triple cork in X Games slopestyle competition (2013)