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Max Parrot wins Canada’s first gold medal at 2022 Olympics by crushing the Snowboard Slopestyle
Max Parrot of Bromont, Quebec, claimed Olympic gold for Team Canada in the men’s snowboard slopestyle, after winning silver in the same event in 2018. Parrot has also won six gold medals at the Winter X Games and two gold medals at the Winter X Games Europe. The win comes just a few years after Parrot had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he announced he had overcome in July 2019. Follow @MaxParrot on Instagram for the latest. Congrats Max!
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