Snowboarder Max Parrot won a Winter Olympic gold medal in Beijing on Monday, just over three years after the Canadian was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in December 2018. Parrot underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy before announcing in July 2019 that he had "won" against cancer.

A seven-time X Games champion, Parrot said that his cancer experience has given him a new-found love for snowboarding, as well as a new perspective on life itself.

"As a person, I used to take life for granted before, and now I don't," he said.

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