Mark McMorris Healing Like The Wolverine After Near-Death Crash | “I broke everything, like 16 bones in one hit. That’s like a car crash.”
Between winning everything and innovating snowboarding Mark McMorris has had a rough last few years. Broken rib right before the Olympics. Busted femur at the Air & Style. Then last years freak accident that nearly killed him in the Whistler backcountry. Broke jaw, arm, ruptured spleen, pelvic fracture, rib fractures, collapsed lung, you name it. It was serious and if it wasn’t for the quick thinking of brother Craig Mark might not be headed to the Olympics for Canada again in 2018. Mark is currently healing up faster than a superhero and gave his story to the good ol’ CBC.
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Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has always had an amazing ability to quickly recover from significant injuries. His comeback from a near-fatal crash in the B.C. backcountry earlier this year is just the latest example.
“I’m feeling really, really good,” he said. “For what happened, I’m doing way better than I thought I’d be doing at this point in time.”
McMorris suffered breaks to his jaw and left arm, a ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung when he crashed off a jump on March 25. He was airlifted from Whistler to Vancouver and underwent emergency surgery to control bleeding and repair his jaw and arm.
“When you get injured usually it’s like, ‘Oh man I’m so bummed, but I can’t wait until the next time I can snowboard,”‘ McMorris said. “This time I was like, ‘I can’t wait until the next time I can move again or like — live.’
“That (crash) was just gnarly.”
The Regina native called it a “huge freak accident,” adding his snowboard’s edge unexpectedly dug in on the soft snow. He couldn’t stop himself from drifting too far left and into the tree.
“I just whacked it out of mid-air,” McMorris said. “It was not a small tree and (it didn’t have) branches on it. I hit it all on my left side. I did a front-side 360 and as I turned around it was just like right there. And then it was just — boom. I broke everything, like 16 bones or something in one hit. That’s like a car crash.”
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