Canada's Max Parrot won the gold medal in the men's snowboard slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Parrot's second run earned him a score of 90.96, the first 90 to be awarded in the competition in both the qualifying and final rounds. The best score out of three runs is selected to determine the winner.
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Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at the end of 2018 and underwent chemotherapy before announcing he was cancer-free in mid-2019.