Mark McMorris breaks Winter X Video games medals file with slopestyle gold
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris broke his tie with American Jamie Anderson for probably the most Winter X Video games medals throughout all websites, incomes his twenty second medal, a slopestyle gold, in Aspen, Colorado.
On the ultimate run of Sunday’s contest, McMorris overtook Norway’s Marcus Kleveland with back-to-back 1620s on the final two jumps. McMorris’ final three Aspen slopestyle titles had been all gained on his remaining run (2019, 2022).
“It’s one thing I by no means thought would ever come to me as a child from Saskatchewan,” McMorris, 29, mentioned on the printed. “Every little thing’s simply been a bonus since I turned a professional snowboarder.”
In a format launched three years in the past, athletes had been ranked on total impression of their greatest run over the course of a jam session relatively than scoring particular person runs.
McMorris gained his record-extending seventh X Video games Aspen males’s slopestyle title, someday after ending fourth in massive air.
“It simply retains getting crazier as a result of I maintain getting older,” he mentioned. “Folks simply maintain pushing the bounds, pushing the bounds. Final night time was such a downer, nearly bums me out, like, dude, do I nonetheless have it? … To have a kind of miracle wins the place you do it on the final run and somebody makes you push your self, these are the very best emotions.”
McMorris gained slopestyle bronze medals at every of the final three Olympics and reportedly mentioned final February that he was planning to compete by way of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Video games.
Canadian Max Parrot, the 2022 Olympic slopestyle champion, is taking this season off from competitors.
Anderson, a two-time Olympic snowboard slopestyle champion, is anticipating her first baby.
Earlier Sunday, Canadian skier Megan Oldham added slopestyle gold to her massive air title from Friday, relegating Olympic champion Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland to silver.
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Mark McMorris breaks Winter X Games medals record with slopestyle gold initially appeared on NBCSports.com