{"id":274689,"date":"2026-02-05T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:17:07","slug":"canadian-snowboarder-mark-mcmorris-crashes-during-big-air-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274689\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris crashes during big air training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/snowboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">snowboarder<\/a>\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> crashed badly during big air training on Wednesday (4 February) in Livigno.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Olympic medallist was stretchered off the course on the eve of the qualifying round and the Opening Ceremony at the Winter Olympics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" data-tracking-disabled=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milano Cortina 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The severity\u00a0of his injury was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>McMorris, 32, came into these Winter Games in a bid to upgrade his three consecutive slopestyle bronze medals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian superstar is the last remaining snowboarder who participated in the slopestyle competition when it was introduced at\u00a0<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>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the slopestyle has brought him unprecedented success at the Olympics, he had pinned his hopes on finally winning a medal in the big air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the buildups to both Sochi 2014 and\u00a0<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian\u00a0snowboarder\u00a0Mark McMorris crashed badly during big air training on Wednesday (4 February) in Livigno.\u00a0 The three-time Olympic medallist&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-274689","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\/274689","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=274689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274689\/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=274689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}