{"id":272904,"date":"2026-02-04T03:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272904\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:51:06","slug":"mark-mcmorris-looking-for-the-ultimate-treat-at-the-winter-olympics-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272904\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark McMorris looking for the &#8220;ultimate treat&#8221; at the Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/snowboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">snowboard<\/a>\u00a0legend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/mark-mcmorris\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark McMorris<\/a> has unfinished business at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> as he goes in search of the &#8220;ultimate treat&#8221; \u2013 Olympic gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of slopestyle as one of the first to compete in the discipline when it was introduced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/sochi-2014\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sochi 2014<\/a>, McMorris has stepped onto the podium at each edition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McMorris practically has a monopoly on the slopestyle bronze medal, but he would not mind upgrading to silver or gold in Milano Cortina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be the ultimate treat, or icing on the cake, if you will,\u201d McMorris told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/olympics\/winter\/snowboard\/olympics-snowboard-mark-mcmorris-milano-cortina-jan29-9.7066481\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the end of the day, in a judged sport, all I can push for is to ride to the best of my ability, and at the end of the day, I try not to get hung up on anything besides that and just enjoy the moment, ride strong and focus mainly on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In slopestyle terms, Team Canada&#8217;s McMorris is somewhat of a relic as the last remaining snowboarder from the class of 2014 who broke new ground when the event debuted in Sochi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even as he pushes deeper into his 30s, McMorris is reluctant to make any predictions about his Olympic future and seems to be toying with the idea of another roller-coaster cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d go to another one, and here I am pushing super hard and totally riding at the level that needs to be ridden at,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to make any claims now. And there\u2019s going to\u00a0be potentially some new events in the next Olympics, so I don\u2019t want to close that door quite yet. So I\u2019m just going to focus on this for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old McMorris will be in action in both the big air and the slopestyle in Livigno for a shot at some snowboard alchemy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McMorris has not only demonstrated incredible longevity, reaching his fourth Olympics, but has also been the personification of resilience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the buildups to both Sochi 2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/pyeongchang-2018\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PyeongChang 2018<\/a>, McMorris had to fight his way back from injury to reach the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It would be foolish to count McMorris out to finally get his hands on gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian snowboard\u00a0legend\u00a0Mark McMorris has unfinished business at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 as he goes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-272904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}